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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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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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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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Happiness is not something you acquire love is not something you produce love is not something you have love is something that has you.
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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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Behold God beholding you...and smiling.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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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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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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