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Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “What is love?“; “The total absence of fear,” said the Master; “What is it we fear?“; “Love,” said the Master.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose – if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else’s lamp. You want to borrow mine. I’d rather teach you how to make your own.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “All suffering comes from a person’s inability to sit still and be alone.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “The only way to change is by changing your understanding.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “The important thing is not to know who “I” is or what “I” is. You’ll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Said the master: “Where does your question come from?””
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 Quote: “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 to lose your life, you live it.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you’re not aware of. When you’re aware of it, you’re free from it. It’s there, but you’re not affected by it. You’re not controlled by it; you’re not enslaved by it. That’s the difference.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 one.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 through non-knowing. The disciple says, “I know.” That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you’re ready to listen and if you’re ready to be challenged, there’s one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It’s called self-observation.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can’t be seen as a “thing”; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Doesn’t everyone see Reality as it is?”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth .”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I’m gone, I trust you will notice the river.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song – not one. Not two.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That’s what all the mystics are saying.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Said the monk: “All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars – where do they come from?” Said the master: “Where does your question come from?””
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don’t. It’s you who give this power to them.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 to see me as I am.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 Quote: “When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories .”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “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 they are going to do with another life.”
Anthony de Mello Quote: “Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.”
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