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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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Bombay
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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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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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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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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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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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.
Anthony de Mello
