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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.
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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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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Humans
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Love springs from awareness.
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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's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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 disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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