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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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
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Bombay
Everyone
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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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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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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