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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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 you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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