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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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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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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
Anthony de Mello
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
Anthony de Mello
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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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony de Mello
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.
Anthony de Mello
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
Anthony de Mello
So love the thought of death, love it.
Anthony de Mello
