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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.

Anthony de Mello

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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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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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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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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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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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Love springs from awareness.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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