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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.
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 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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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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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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.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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