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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.
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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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