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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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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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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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