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All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be 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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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
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The seeker says, I do not know. That takes honesty. The master says, I do not know. That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, I know. That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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