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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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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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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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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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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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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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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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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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