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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
Yearn
Within
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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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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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Love springs from awareness.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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