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Love springs from awareness.

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
Love
Springs
Spring
Awareness

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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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