To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit. — Anthony de Mello 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 Copy Share Image
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony de Mello Buddhism Copy Share Image
All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. — Anthony de Mello 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
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present. — Anthony de Mello 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 were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he… — Anthony de Mello 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 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 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
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 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
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
The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn… — Anthony de Mello 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 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
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 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
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Identity Copy Share Image
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. — Anthony de Mello Absence 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
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
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
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. — Anthony de Mello Hibernation 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
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. — Anthony de Mello Alive Copy Share Image
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
