All Anthony de Mello Quotes
- When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. Guilt
- Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. Awareness
- Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Description
- Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Able
- A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. Envelope
- Don't ask the world to change....you change first. Ask
- Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me… Casts
- "I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without… Absorb
- You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. Dears
- Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. Absolute
- There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs… Belief
- the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. Accepting
- You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison… Cell
- The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is… Blooms
- As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. Arabs
- All conflict comes from attachment. All
- Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your… All
- "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable." Cooperation
- "My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept… Accept
- "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When… Assuming
- A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get… Agriculture
- 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. When you're ready… Damn
- The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?"… Asked
- The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things… Borrowed
- "Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see… Beauty