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You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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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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If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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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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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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When you cling, life is destroyed when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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