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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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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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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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