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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.
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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Psychologist
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Bombay
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Love
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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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 don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something.
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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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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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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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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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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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What can I do to see Reality as it is? The master smiled and said, I have good news and bad news for you, my friend. What's the bad news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift. And what's the good news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
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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.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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