When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. — Anthony de Mello 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 Copy Share Image
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. — 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
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes,"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“So, we were born happy. We lost it. We were born with the gift of life. We lost it. We’ve got to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country,… — 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
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying… — 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
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
“Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been… — 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
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see… — 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
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. — 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
"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning."… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger… — 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
