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Do you want a sign that you’re asleep? Here it is: you’re suffering. Suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

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Self-Development Quotes on: Truth, Suffering, Sleep, Pain, Suffer, Understand, Give, Anthony De Mello, Wise

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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

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Motivational Quotes on: Truth, Suffering, Suffer, Give, Anthony De Mello

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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

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Inspirational Quotes on: Fear, Love, Happiness, Cling, Perfect, Expect, Anthony De Mello, Joy, Demand, Happy

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Life is for the gambler, it really is.

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Famous Quotes on: Life, Anthony De Mello

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So love the thought of death, love it.

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Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Death, Anthony De Mello

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You’re not living until it doesn’t matter a tinker’s damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you’re ready to lose your life, you live it.

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Motivational Quotes on: Live, Life, Anthony De Mello

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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you’re lying in your coffin….Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn’t it?"

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Inspirational Quotes on: Change, Live, Yin, The Way, Anthony De Mello

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…As the great Confucius said, “The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change.” Flow. But we keep looking back, don’t we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don’t hold on to a few bars of the music. Don’t hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...

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Famous Quotes on: Change, Happiness, Confucius, Flow, Past, Cling, Great, Lies, Music, Anthony De Mello, Joy, Symphony

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When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

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Self-Development Quotes on: Live, Cling, Destroy, Life, Anthony De Mello

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Don’t say, “I am depressed.” If you want to say, “It is depressed,” that’s all right. If you want to say that depression is there, that’s fine; if you want to say gloominess is there, that’s fine. But not: I am gloomy. You’re defining yourself in terms of the feeling. That’s your illusion; that’s your mistake. There is a depression there right now, but let it be, leave it alone. It will pass. Everything passes, everything. Your depressions and your thrills have nothing to do with happiness. Those are swings of the pendulum. If you seek kicks or thrills, get ready for depression. Do you want your drug? Get ready for the hangover. One end of the pendulum swings over to the other.

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Motivational Quotes on: Happiness, Depression, Mistake, Anthony De Mello, Win

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