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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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Bombay
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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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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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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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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.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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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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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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Love springs from awareness.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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