What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello Cooperation Copy Share Image
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. — Anthony de Mello Delightful Copy Share Image
Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you. — Anthony de Mello Funny Copy Share Image
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. — Anthony de Mello Height Copy Share Image
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. — Anthony de Mello Guilt Copy Share Image
You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend. — Anthony de Mello Defend Copy Share Image
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology. — Anthony de Mello Awakened Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. — Anthony de Mello Education Copy Share Image
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth. — Anthony de Mello Masters 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… — Anthony de Mello Courses Copy Share Image
If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly. — Anthony de Mello Delivery Copy Share Image
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a… — Anthony de Mello Distance 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 Disciple Copy Share Image
The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body… — Anthony de Mello Body Copy Share Image
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils;… — Anthony de Mello God Copy Share Image
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. — Anthony de Mello Book Copy Share Image
Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them.… — Anthony de Mello Grappling Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Anxiety Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Bird Copy Share Image
What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!… — Anthony de Mello Buddhism 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 Awakened 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 Destruction Copy Share Image
Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I… — Anthony de Mello Charity Copy Share Image
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering… — Anthony de Mello Bread 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
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
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come! — Anthony de Mello Arms 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
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. — Anthony de Mello Add 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
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — Anthony de Mello Child 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 Busy 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
“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.” — Anthony de Mello Change 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 Distance Copy Share Image
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello Buddhism 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 Envelopes 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
