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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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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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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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What, concretely, is Enlightenment ? Seeing Reality as it is, said the Master. Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is? Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is. What's the difference? The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for mil
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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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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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