Anthony de Mello Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.

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  Reality, News, Masters

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• Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

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  Unlearn

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.205, Image

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• You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

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  Truth, Light, Land

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.68, Image

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• Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

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  Life, People, Action

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.39, Image

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• Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

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  Beauty Everywhere, Failing

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.55, Image

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• If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

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  Heart, Results, Ifs

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.160, Image

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• If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

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  Unique, Bored, Looks

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• In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

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  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

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

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• Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

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  Reality, Feelings, Goes On

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

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• The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

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  Self, Ideas, Challenges

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

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• Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

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  Risk, Sin, Refusal

  Anthony De Mello (2010). “Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”, p.21, Image

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• Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

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  Thinking, Practice, Dying

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.114, Image

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• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

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  Ego, Steps, Joyful

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 177), 1992.

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• A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

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  Selfish, Book, Writing

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

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• Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

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  Thinking, Lazy, Mind

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• The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

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  Mystic, Sleepers, Feigning

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.149, Image

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• You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.

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  Children, Sight, Special

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 8, 1992.

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• People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

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  Ideas, People, Ruthless

  "Awareness : The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 7), 1992.

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• One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever."

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  Love, Forever, One Day

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• Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

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  Suicide, Religious, Men

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• It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

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  Attachment, Ease, Illusion

  "Awareness". Book by Anthony de Mello, "A Changed Person", p. 96, 1992.

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• Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

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  Love, Self Love, Oneself

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.126, Image

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