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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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 keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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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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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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