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To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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Enlightenment
Relate
Relationships
Oneself
Awareness
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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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Problems only exist in the human mind.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
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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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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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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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Why is everyone here so happy except me? Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere, said the Master. Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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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 human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.
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What, concretely, is Enlightenment ? Seeing Reality as it is, said the Master. Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is? Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is. What's the difference? The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for mil
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