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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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 the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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