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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

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
Murderers
Ruthless
Murderer
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Money
Power
Ideas
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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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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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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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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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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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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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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A lost coin is found by means of a candle the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
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A disciple asked, Who is a Master? The Master replied, Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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