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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
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Bombay
Springs
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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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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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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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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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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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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