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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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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Bombay
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Love springs from awareness.
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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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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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