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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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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Bombay
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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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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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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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Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with me and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
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Happiness is not something you acquire love is not something you produce love is not something you have love is something that has you.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Why is everyone here so happy except me? Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere, said the Master. Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony de Mello
