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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
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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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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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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What can I do to see Reality as it is? The master smiled and said, I have good news and bad news for you, my friend. What's the bad news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift. And what's the good news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved, said the preacher piously. Rubbish, said the Master. The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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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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All conflict comes from attachment.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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