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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
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Psychologist
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Bombay
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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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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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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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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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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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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