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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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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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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Love springs from awareness.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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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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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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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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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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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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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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