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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
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Bombay
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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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 greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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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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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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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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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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