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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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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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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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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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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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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.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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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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