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The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Logic
Devil
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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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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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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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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
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You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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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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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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A lost coin is found by means of a candle the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
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