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Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

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
Writer
Bombay
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Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
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What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with me and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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Is there life before death? - that is the question!
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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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If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
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Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire love is not something you produce love is not something you have love is something that has you.
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