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I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

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Change, Selfish, Love You

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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

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Selfish, Live Your Life, Demand

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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

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Emotional, Attachment, Names

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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

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Spiritual, Feet, People

Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.38, Image

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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

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Ignorance, Spirituality, Awareness

Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.97, Image

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"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

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Spiritual, Beauty Everywhere, Failing

Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.55, Image

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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

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Children, Flower, Mean

"The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

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Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

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Love Is, Light, Evil People

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

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Persons

Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.34, Image

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"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

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Love, Absence, Masters

Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.203, Image

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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

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Giving Up, Giving, Fear Of The Unknown

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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

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Spiritual, Hurt, People

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.113, Image

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You can never be free
as long as you have an ego to defend.

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Long, Ego

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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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Happiness, Couple, Lying

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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

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Wells, Mess

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.5, Image

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As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

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Spiritual, Hurt, Desire

"Awareness: The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 96, June 1, 1990.

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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. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

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Inspirational, Pain, Eye

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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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Compassion, Race, Silence

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Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

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Reality, Light, Darkness

Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.7, Image

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Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

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Ambition, Greed, Life Is

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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Both what you run from-
and what you yearn for -
are within you.

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Running, 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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Spiritual, Heart, Eye

Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.34, Image

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‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

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Love You, Attachment, Trying

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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

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Born: September 4, 1931
Died: June 2, 1987
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