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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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
Defend
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
Anthony de Mello
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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