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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. People say you are a genius . Are you? he asked. You might say so. said the Master, none too modestly. And what makes one a genius? The ability to recognize. Recognize what? The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human bein
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Problems exist only in the human mind.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!
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A lost coin is found by means of a candle the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
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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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Said the monk: All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from? Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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