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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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Bombay
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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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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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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