All Anthony de Mello Quotes
- Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. Alive
- I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with… Agreed
- To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment. Awareness
- All that you give to others you are giving to yourself. All
- If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse… Authority
- Is there life before death? - that is the question! Death
- All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. All
- The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… All
- Said the master: "Where does your question come from?" Doe
- These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without… Awareness
- It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of… Alone
- People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands… Actually Done
- The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said… Bread
- Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired… Action
- When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your… Brake
- The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 Awareness
- This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. All
- the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause… Accompanied
- You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. Funny
- If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An… Admit
- People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. Change
- As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That… Always Searching
- Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting… Agree
- The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended… All
- The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness… Analyzing