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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
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Bombay
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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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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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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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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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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