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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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Humans
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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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 so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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 come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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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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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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