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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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Bombay
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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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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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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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