What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello Cooperation Copy Share Image
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks. — Anthony de Mello 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 you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. — Anthony de Mello Guilt Copy Share Image
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. — Anthony de Mello 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
My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To… — Anthony de Mello 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 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 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
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying… — Anthony de Mello Change Copy Share Image
“Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the… — Anthony de Mello Peace 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
“The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and… — Anthony de Mello Distinction 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
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some… — Anthony de Mello Action Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too… — Anthony de Mello 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
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
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
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
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. — Anthony de Mello Education 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
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing. — Anthony de Mello 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
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — Anthony de Mello Child 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
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come! — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. — Anthony de Mello 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
“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.” — Anthony de Mello Change Copy Share Image
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. — Anthony de Mello Fear 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 Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony de Mello Buddhism 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
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony de Mello Awareness Copy Share Image
