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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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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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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 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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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 nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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