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A disciple asked, Who is a Master? The Master replied, Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

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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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
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The important thing is not to know who I is or what I is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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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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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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