When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power. — Anthony de Mello Fight Copy Share Image
“And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?” — Anthony de Mello Football Copy Share Image
A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories. — Anthony de Mello Education 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 Ideas Copy Share Image
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. — Anthony de Mello Today Copy Share Image
You can will an act of service but you cannot will love. — Anthony de Mello Acts of service Copy Share Image
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — Anthony de Mello Child Copy Share Image
“As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is… — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As… — Anthony de Mello Happiness Copy Share Image
A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for… — Anthony de Mello Achievement Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.” — Anthony de Mello Certainty Copy Share Image
“There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have… — Anthony de Mello Chopping wood 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
What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence.… — Anthony de Mello Feelings 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
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not,… — Anthony de Mello Action Copy Share Image
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if… — Anthony de Mello Awareness 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 Evil Copy Share Image
Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of… — Anthony de Mello Attachment Copy Share Image
Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known. — Anthony de Mello Fear Copy Share Image
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go — Anthony de Mello Clothes 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
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. — 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 Deliberate Copy Share Image
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come! — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony de Mello Inspirational Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? — Anthony de Mello Funny Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. — Anthony de Mello Education Copy Share Image
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello Buddhism Copy Share Image
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. — Anthony de Mello Absence Copy Share Image
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. — Anthony de Mello Fear Copy Share Image
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
