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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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