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Problems only exist in the human mind.

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
Writer
Bombay
Thinking
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Problems
Learning
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Human
Humans
Mind
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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, It is you who make your destiny. But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman? Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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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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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Is there life before death? - that is the question!
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If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.
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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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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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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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