People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait."… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
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… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing:… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
“And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share
