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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
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Bombay
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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