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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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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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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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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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Love springs from awareness.
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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 the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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