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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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 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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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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Behold God beholding you...and smiling.
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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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Look for competence not claims.
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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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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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No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.
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