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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
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 lost coin is found by means of a candle the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
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Look for competence not claims.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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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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What, concretely, is Enlightenment ? Seeing Reality as it is, said the Master. Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is? Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is. What's the difference? The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for mil
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Said the monk: All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from? Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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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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