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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

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
Writer
Bombay
Teacher
Wish
Become
Truth

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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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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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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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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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