“The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? — 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 Copy Share Image
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
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.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Neurotičar je osoba koja brine zbog nečega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
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… — 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
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come! — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that… — Anthony de Mello 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
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
If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
