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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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