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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

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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
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Bombay
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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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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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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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