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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
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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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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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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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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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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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