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Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

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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
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
God
Beholding
Behold
Smiling

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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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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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The seeker says, I do not know. That takes honesty. The master says, I do not know. That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, I know. That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.
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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
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One day, a philosopher asked, What is the purpose of creation? Lovemaking, said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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 read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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