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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
Anthony de Mello
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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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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 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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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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.
Anthony de Mello
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
Anthony de Mello
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.
Anthony de Mello
Love springs from awareness.
Anthony de Mello
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.
Anthony de Mello
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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