You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it! — Anthony de Mello Ashamed Copy Share Image
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know. — Anthony de Mello God Copy Share Image
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two. — Anthony de Mello Light Copy Share Image
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for… — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
“Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.' Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you… — Anthony de Mello Disciple Copy Share Image
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect… — Anthony de Mello Bird 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… — Anthony de Mello Become rich Copy Share Image
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the… — Anthony de Mello Human heart Copy Share Image
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what… — Anthony de Mello Bliss Copy Share Image
Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why… — Anthony de Mello Beauty Copy Share Image
You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and… — Anthony de Mello Belief Copy Share Image
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and… — Anthony de Mello Alive Copy Share Image
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego. — Anthony de Mello Burden Copy Share Image
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“I lack the Lord’s own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.” — Anthony de Mello God Copy Share Image
The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas. — Anthony de Mello Challenges Copy Share Image
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. — Anthony de Mello Food Copy Share Image
“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.” — Anthony de Mello Ideals Copy Share Image