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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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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Knowledge
Human
Humans
Ultimate

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Love springs from awareness.
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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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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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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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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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