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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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One day, a philosopher asked, What is the purpose of creation? Lovemaking, said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. People say you are a genius . Are you? he asked. You might say so. said the Master, none too modestly. And what makes one a genius? The ability to recognize. Recognize what? The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human bein
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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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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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When you cling, life is destroyed when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
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