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• A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

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  Letting Go, Ego, Life Is

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• The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

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  Finals, Masters, Barriers

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.193, Image

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• You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

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  Spiritual, Feel Good, World

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.83, Image

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• There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

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  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

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  Years, Giving, Waiting

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• One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

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  Years, Twenties, Hibernation

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 73, 1992.

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• "My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

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  Spiritual, Lying, Taught

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• If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

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  Home, Grace, Today

  Anthony De Mello (2010). “Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”, p.45, Image

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• The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

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  Mind, Division, Foolish

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.173, Image

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• Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

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  Used, Description, Distortion

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.124, Image

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• Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

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  World, Able, Organize

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.113, Image

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• How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

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  Children, Eye, Eyes Of A Child

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.126, Image

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• Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

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  Littles, Crosses, Leap

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.36, Image

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• When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

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  Silence, Speak, Dear

  "One Minute Wisdom". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1989.

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• What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Sensitive

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.140, Image

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• The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.

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  Important, Labels, Succeed

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

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• 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 Is, Produce, Obstruction

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

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• To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

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  Fighting, Light, Hands

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• Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

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  People, Saint, Speak

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• The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

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  Taken, Moon, Tasks

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• A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .

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  Jesus, People, One Day

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• Problems exist only in the human mind.

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  Mind, Problem, Humans

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

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• It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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  Spiritual, Heart, Delight

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.7, Image

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.

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  God, Thinking, Moon

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• Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

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  Names, Earth, Height

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