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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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Love springs from awareness.
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The important thing is not to know who I is or what I is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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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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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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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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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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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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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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