Anthony de Mello idézet

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„Sok olyan ember van, aki nagyon kevéssel is képes gazdaggá tenni a saját és mások életét.”

„Amikor a veréb fészket épít az erdőben, csak egyetlen ágat foglal el. Amikor a szarvas a folyónál a szomját oltja, csak annyit iszik, amennyi a gyomrába fér. Mi azért gyűjtögetünk, mert üres a szívünk.”

„Buddha így tanított: Ez a föld az enyém, ezek pedig itt az én gyermekeim - mondja a buta, aki azt sem érti, hogy még ő maga sem az övé.”

„A szegények azt gondolják, hogy boldogok lesznek, ha meggazdagodnak. A gazdagok azt gondolják, hogy boldogok lesznek, ha megszabadulnak a gyomorfekélyüktől.”

„Igazi filozófus lévén, Szókratész szentül meg volt győződve arról, hogy a bölcs ember ösztönszerűleg igénytelen életet él. Ő maga még cipőt sem hordott; de ugyanakkor a piac szelleme sokszor rabul ejtette, és kiment, hogy az árukban gyönyörködjék. Amikor egy barátja aziránt érdeklődött, hoghy miért teszi ezt, Szókratész ezt válaszolta: - Azért szeretek odamenni, mert ott fedezem fel, hogy annyi minden nélkül is tökéletesen boldog vagyok.”

„Amikor egy embernek azt mondták, hogy az áradat elsodorta a házát, csak nevetett, és így szólt:”

“The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.”

“Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

“Some people write to make a living; others to share their insights or raise questions that will haunt their readers; others yet to understand their very souls. None of these will last. That distinction belongs to those who write only because if they did not write they would burst… These writers give expression to the divine — no matter what they write about.”

“A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?"
The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God."”

“To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.”

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

“Johnny goes to modeling class in his school for special children and he gets his piece of putty and he's modeling it. He takes a little lump of putty and goes to a corner of the room and he's playing with it. The teacher comes up to him and says, "Hi, Johnny." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the teacher says, "What's that you've got in your hand?" And Johnny says, "This is a lump of cow dung." The teacher asks, "What are you making out of it?" He says, "I'm making a teacher."
The teacher thought, "Little Johnny has regressed." So she calls out to the principal, who was passing by the door at that moment, and says, "Johnny has regressed."
So the principal goes up to Johnny and says, "Hi, son." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the principal says, "What do you have in your hand?" And he says, "A lump of cow dung." "What are you making out of it?" And he says, "A principal."
The principal thinks that this is a case for the school psychologist. "Send for the psychologist!"
The psychologist is a clever guy. He goes up and says, "Hi." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the psychologist says, "I know what you've got in your hand." "What?" "A lump cow dung." Johnny says, "Right." "And I know what you're making out of it." "What?" "You're making a psychologist."”

“You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.”

“A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.”

“The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.”

“Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.”

“If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.”

“Is there life before death? — that is the question!”

“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.”

“Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.”

“Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.”

“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”

“The best things in life cannot be willed into being.”

“What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.”

“Look for competence not claims.”

“There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.”

“The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.”

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

“"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.”

“"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."”

“Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new.”