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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
Springs
Spring
Awareness
Love

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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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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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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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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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