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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Running
Yearn
Within

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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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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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