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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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hurt, People

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

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• The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

  Anthony de Mello

  Land, Joy, Finding Yourself

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

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• Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Pain, Growth

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, Image

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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Hate, Achievement

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, Image

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• Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Success, Spiritual

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• "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Serenity, Secret

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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 look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Lying, Looks

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• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Boss

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• Extend
  your arms
  in welcome
  to the future.
  The best
  is yet to come!

  Anthony de Mello

  Best Is Yet To Come, Arms, Welcome

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.239, Image

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• Is there life before death? - that is the question!

  Anthony de Mello

  Before Death

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.74, Image

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  Anthony de Mello

  Teacher, Practice, Theory

  "One Minute Wisdom". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1989.

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• When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

  Anthony de Mello

  Being Yourself, Fear, Failure

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• Problems only exist in the human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Absence, Masters

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

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• the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

  Anthony de Mello

  Lying, Age, Accepting

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Butterfly, Eggs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

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  Self, Silence, Sound

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.126, Image

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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 that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

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  Giving, Awareness, Self Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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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 recognition.

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  Spiritual, Distance, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.178, Image

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Long, Ego

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Running, Within You

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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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Compassion, Race, Silence

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• As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".

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