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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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
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Bombay
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Attitude
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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 someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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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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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 only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Love springs from awareness.
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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