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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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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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 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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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