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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
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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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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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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved, said the preacher piously. Rubbish, said the Master. The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
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All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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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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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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