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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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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Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. 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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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What can I do to see Reality as it is? The master smiled and said, I have good news and bad news for you, my friend. What's the bad news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift. And what's the good news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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All conflict comes from attachment.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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