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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
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Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Human
Humans
Ultimate
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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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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