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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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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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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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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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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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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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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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