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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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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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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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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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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 tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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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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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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Love springs from awareness.
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
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