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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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All conflict comes from attachment.
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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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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .
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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
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Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, It is you who make your destiny. But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman? Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
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If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
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