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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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

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  Inspiring, Forgiving, Needs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.151, Image

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

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  Wall, Taken, Eye

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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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• The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent.

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  Buddhist, Rose, Laos

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.137, 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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