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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
Philosopher
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Bombay
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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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All conflict comes from attachment.
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A disciple asked, Who is a Master? The Master replied, Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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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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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
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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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