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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
Philosopher
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Bombay
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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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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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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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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