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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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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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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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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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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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