Anthony de Mello Quotes
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within 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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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
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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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Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.
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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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Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Love springs from awareness.
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
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What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.
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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 being.
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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 those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.
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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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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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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, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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