You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. — Anthony de Mello Hopeful Copy Share Image
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. — Anthony de Mello Cease Copy Share Image
All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. — Anthony de Mello Mess Copy Share Image
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony de Mello Butterfly Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony de Mello Buddhism Copy Share Image
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. — Anthony de Mello Barriers 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 Aware Copy Share Image
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the… — Anthony de Mello Delight 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 Belief Copy Share Image
You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you… — Anthony de Mello Closed eyes 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… — Anthony de Mello Break 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 Damn 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… — Anthony de Mello Change Copy Share Image
My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To… — Anthony de Mello Accepting Copy Share Image
What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous… — Anthony de Mello Disciple 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 Asking 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 Awakening Copy Share Image
As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you… — Anthony de Mello Afraid of being hurt 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… — Anthony de Mello Guilt Copy Share Image
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know."… — Anthony de Mello Buddhist Copy Share Image
God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again.… — Anthony de Mello Again and again Copy Share Image
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some… — Anthony de Mello Action Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello Cutting Copy Share Image
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. — Anthony de Mello Accepting Copy Share Image
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony de Mello Eye Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Identity Copy Share Image
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present. — Anthony de Mello Golden Copy Share Image
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story. — Anthony de Mello Candle Copy Share Image
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. — Anthony de Mello Communication Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. — Anthony de Mello Absence 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. — Anthony de Mello Hibernation 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 Commit Copy Share Image
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique. — Anthony de Mello Bored Copy Share Image
“What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.” — Anthony de Mello Change Copy Share Image
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance. — Anthony de Mello Disturbance Copy Share Image
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. — Anthony de Mello Alive Copy Share Image
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks. — Anthony de Mello Committed Copy Share Image
