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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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Bombay
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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.
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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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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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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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