Anthony de Mello Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Spiritual, Reality, People

  "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

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  Happiness, Sorry, Fear

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

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  Kings, Bread, Philosopher

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.86, Image

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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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  Love You, Ideas, Hopeful

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.8, Image

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• All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

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  Suffering, Inability, Persons

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.90, Image

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• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

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• There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.

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  Important, Finding Happiness, Appreciated

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.112, Image

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• Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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  Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

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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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• Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

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  Mistake, Attempting, Biggest Mistake

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 20, 1992.

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• Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

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  Self, Interest, Self Interest

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.23, Image

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• When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

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  Teacher, Mean, Stories

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 112, 1992.

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• Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

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  God

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• May the peace of God disturb you always.

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  May

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• Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

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  Reality, Feelings, Negative

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.51, Image

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• Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

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  Pain, Stupid, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

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  Eye, Objectivity, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.74, Image

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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, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

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  Life, Thinking, Needs

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

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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 symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

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  Inspirational, Play, Symphony

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• You do not have to change for God to love you.

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  Love You

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• If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

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  Needs, Said, Ifs

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• Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

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  Taught

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 53, 1992.

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• You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

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  Life, Christian, People

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

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• This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.

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  Lying, Believe, Mean

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.3, Image

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• Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

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  Real, Ego, Steps

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.145, Image

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