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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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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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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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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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