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• Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

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  Stars, Rivers, Mountain

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.28, Image

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• When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

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  Wise, Spiritual, Yesterday

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

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• Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

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  Love, Spiritual, Light

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.176, Image

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• "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Assuming

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• Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

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  World, Firsts, Asks

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

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• You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

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  Past, Proud, Ashamed

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• Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

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  Loss, Known

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.29, Image

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• 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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  Rain, Flower, Garden

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

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• The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

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  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 114, 1992.

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• 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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  Couple, Love You, Together

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.99, Image

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• Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

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  Reality, Frozen, Flow

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• The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

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  Spiritual, Honesty, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.44, Image

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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.

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  Spiritual, People, Mind

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 157, 1992.

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• The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

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  Understanding, Way

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.137, Image

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• To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

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  Fate, Destiny, Responsible

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.35, Image

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• As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

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  Opinion, Masters, Theory

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.73, Image

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• Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

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  Congratulations, Mean, Lovely

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.146, Image

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• We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

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  Night, Light, Worry

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• If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

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  Passion, May, Overwhelming

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.70, Image

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• Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and
  culture.

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  Children, Stupidity, Culture

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

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• Love springs from awareness.

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  Spring, Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.96, Image

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• People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

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  People, Legs, Steps

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.66, Image

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• A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

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  Spiritual, Pride, Men

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.65, Image

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• If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

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  Heart, Eye, Fire

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.121, Image

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• Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.

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  Needs, Social, Herds

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