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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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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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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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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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