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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
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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