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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
— Anthony De Mello
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
— Anthony De Mello
My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth .
— Anthony De Mello
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
— Anthony De Mello
Extend your arms
in welcome
to the future.
The best
is yet to come! — Anthony De Mello
You do not have to change for God to love you.
— Anthony De Mello
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
— Anthony De Mello
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.
— Anthony De Mello
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
— Anthony De Mello
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
— Anthony De Mello
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
— Anthony De Mello
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.
— Anthony De Mello
Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
— Anthony De Mello
May the peace of God disturb you always.
— Anthony De Mello
Both what you run from-and what you yearn for -
are within you. — Anthony De Mello
Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
— Anthony De Mello
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
— Anthony De Mello
The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
— Anthony De Mello
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
— Anthony De Mello
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.
— Anthony De Mello
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
— Anthony De Mello
Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.'Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love? — Anthony De Mello
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
— Anthony De Mello
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.
— Anthony De Mello
Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.
— Anthony De Mello
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.
— Anthony De Mello
Look for competence not claims.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
— Anthony De Mello
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
— Anthony De Mello
Is there life before death? - that is the question!
— Anthony De Mello
True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
— Anthony De Mello
Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
— Anthony De Mello
Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? — Anthony De Mello
As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
— Anthony De Mello
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
— Anthony De Mello
All conflict comes from attachment.
— Anthony De Mello
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
— Anthony De Mello
You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
— Anthony De Mello
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
— Anthony De Mello
As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions". Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
— Anthony De Mello
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
— Anthony De Mello
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. — Anthony De Mello
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
— Anthony De Mello
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
— Anthony De Mello
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
— Anthony De Mello
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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You can never be freeas long as you have an ego to defend. — Anthony De Mello
So love the thought of death, love it.
— Anthony De Mello
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.
— Anthony De Mello
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
— Anthony De Mello
The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.
— Anthony De Mello
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
— Anthony De Mello
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
— Anthony De Mello
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
— Anthony De Mello
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
— Anthony De Mello
Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.
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The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 — Anthony De Mello
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
— Anthony De Mello
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
— Anthony De Mello
The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
— Anthony De Mello
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
— Anthony De Mello
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
— Anthony De Mello
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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We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.
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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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
— Anthony De Mello
If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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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.
— Anthony De Mello
The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
— Anthony De Mello
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.
— Anthony De Mello
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
— Anthony De Mello
I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
— Anthony De Mello
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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Problems only exist in the human mind.
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