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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Service
Cannot
Love

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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Love springs from awareness.
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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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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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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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