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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .
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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Why is everyone here so happy except me? Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere, said the Master. Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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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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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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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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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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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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When you cling, life is destroyed when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
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