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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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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.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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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.
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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