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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.
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
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Bombay
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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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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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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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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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn 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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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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