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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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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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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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