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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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