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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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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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The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved, said the preacher piously. Rubbish, said the Master. The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
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A disciple asked, Who is a Master? The Master replied, Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
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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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You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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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 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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Why is everyone here so happy except me? Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere, said the Master. Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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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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