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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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