Anthony De Mello Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony De Mello
Anthony De Mello Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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.
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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.
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go
As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions". Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together" ...
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.