One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
Quotes from One Minute Nonsense — Anthony de Mello
1931–1987 India
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean.
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"There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift."
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name.
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"When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger."
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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I have good news and bad news for you, my friend.
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"If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
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History, after all, is the record of appearances, not Reality; of doctrines, not of Silence.
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The apprentice did precisely what he thought he was told.
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"What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony de Mello (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.