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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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