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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
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Wisdom
Cannot
Learned
Taught

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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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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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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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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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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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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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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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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Love springs from awareness.
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