All Anthony de Mello Quotes
- A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune… Awakened
- Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Ambition
- Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till… Become Flabby
- The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that… Called
- Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. Absence
- When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power. Fight
- Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Break
- If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the… Bird
- You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of… Answer
- What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to… All
- People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg Deliberate
- Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new. All
- We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. Fear
- The only way to change is by changing your understanding. Change
- Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit. Demand
- Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you. Acquire
- You sanctify whatever you are grateful for. Funny
- You do not have to change for God to love you. Change
- Behold God beholding you...and smiling. Behold
- One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was.… Asked
- The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including… Achievement
- If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is… Attachment
- My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what… All
- A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the… Ant
- If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. Condemned