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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Must
Dear
Listen
Silence
Words
Speak

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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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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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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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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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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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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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