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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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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.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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 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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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