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Say Quotes by Anthony de Mello
- Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise…
- I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in…
- As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
- There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love…
- 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…
- Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting…
- As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
- Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't…
- The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master…
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