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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.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Understand
Beliefs
Reality
Wake
Light
False
Darkness
Taste
Stop
Vanish
Belief
Nightmare
Happiness
Drop

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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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