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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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