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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
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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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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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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