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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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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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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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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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