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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
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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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 Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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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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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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