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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
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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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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 newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
Anthony de Mello
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.
Anthony de Mello
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony de Mello
