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The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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All conflict comes from attachment.
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To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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Problems only exist in the human mind.
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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