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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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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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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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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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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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