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Anthony de Mello

Anthony "Tony" de Mello (4 September 1931 – 2 June 1987) was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker, De Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences. He continues to be known for his storytelling which drew from the various mystical traditions of both East and West and for his introducing many people in the West to awareness prayer.

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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.

Attachment, Ease, Illusion, Know, Love

This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

Human, Humans, Know, Knowledge Of God, Knows, Ultimate

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.

Needs, Social, Herds, Belong, Herd, Course

All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

Everything, Mess, Though, Wells

As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

Desire, Happiness, Hurt, Imagine, Know, Spiritual

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

Concepts, Flow, Flows, Frozen, Reality

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

Blessing, Evidence, Firmly, Gift, World

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.

Become, Rich, Rid, Think, Thinking, Ulcers

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.

Becomes, Lazy, Mind, Thinking, Till

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have. . . . But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

Bliss, Everything, Life, Mindfulness, Reason, Thinking

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Favour, Pain, People, Progress, Provided

"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. "

Accept, Death, Learn, Lying, Spiritual, Taught

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.

Action, Facts, Men, Reject, Religious, Suicide

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. "

Beauty Everywhere, Everywhere, Fail, Failing, Happy, Spiritual

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

Flower, Garden, Grow, Marshes, Rain, Thorns

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?"

Earth, Mountain, Question, Rivers, Stars

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.

Disciple, Eye, Eyes, Learn, See

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.

Blame, Broken, Everyone, Evil, Forgiveness, Glasses

‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

Absorb, Attachment, Fears, Love You, Property, Trying

The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant.

Cutting, Expression, Law, Minimum, Lover, Preacher

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