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An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. (Anthony de Mello)
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth." "Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?" "I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?" "You will have grown accustomed to it. View quote
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on. View quote
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990. View quote
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The Master once referred to the Hindu notion that all creation is "leela" - God's play - and the universe is his playground. The aim of spirituality, he claimed, is to make all life play. This seemed too frivolous for a puritanical visitor. "Is their no room then for work?" "Of course there is. But work becomes spiritual only when it is transformed into play." View quote
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To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth." View quote
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain. View quote
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Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever. View quote
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There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice. View quote
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The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen. View quote
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The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine. (Anthony de Mello)
Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism. View quote
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The Master is not concerned with what we believe - only with what we see. View quote
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly. View quote
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Ideas kill people. View quote
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. One sign that you're awakened is that you don't give a damn about what's going to happen in the next life. You're not bothered about it; you don't care. You are not interested, period. View quote
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The Master was allergic to ideologies. "In a war of ideas," he said, "it is people who are the casualties." Later he elaborated: "People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas." View quote
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The master was never impressed by diplomas or degrees. He scrutinized the person, not the certificate. He was once heard to say, 'When you have ears to hear a bird in song, you don't need to look at its credentials." View quote
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Death is resurrection. We're talking not about some resurrection that will happen but about one that is happening right now. View quote
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Wake up! That's what repent means. Not "weep for your sins.": Wake up! understand, stop all the crying. Understand! Wake up! View quote
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I'd much rather hear you say, "I've come awake," than hear you say, "I'm sorry." (Anthony de Mello)
We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment. View quote
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. View quote
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Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about. View quote
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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth . View quote
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