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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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The important thing is not to know who I is or what I is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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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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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
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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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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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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, It is you who make your destiny. But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman? Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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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