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Problems exist only in the human mind.

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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Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Mind
Exist
Problems
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Humans

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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.
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Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire love is not something you produce love is not something you have love is something that has you.
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No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, It is you who make your destiny. But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman? Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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