Anthony de Mello Quotes
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.…
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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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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…
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Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to…
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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…
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now…
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.…
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When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.
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And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more…
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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…
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What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of…
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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,…
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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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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