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• Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

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  Money, Names, Clothes

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.77, Image

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• Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

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  Flower, Looks, Alive

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.101, Image

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

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  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

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  Grateful, Sanctify

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.238, Image

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• The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

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  Pms, Live In The Moment, Mind

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• 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 guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."

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  Wise, Nice, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.6, Image

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Ulcers, Rich

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.33, Image

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• Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Tragedy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.150, Image

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• the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

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  Attachment, Anxiety, Tragedy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.21, Image

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• 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 the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

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  Book, Writing, People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.40, Image

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• There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

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  Suicide, Insane, Mystic

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• When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

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  Height, Spirit, Raises

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 80, 1992.

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• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

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  Reality, Thinking, Sight

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• When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

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  Life, Cease, Destroyed

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.111, Image

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• To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .

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  Followers, May, Visitors

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.40, Image

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• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

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  Father, Heart, Relative Value

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

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• What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

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  Mean, Identity, Void

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• You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

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  Distance, Stories, Humans

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• The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Anthony De Mello: Writings".

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• As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

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  Reality, Looks, World

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.148, Image

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• You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

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  Spiritual, Ambition, Order

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

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• All conflict comes from attachment.

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  Relationship, Attachment, Conflict

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.38, Image

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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

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  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

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  Change

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.56, Image

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• Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

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  People, Licking, Busy

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