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You do not have to change for God to love 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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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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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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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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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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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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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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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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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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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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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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