Anthony de Mello Quotes

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• 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 them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

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  Change, Selfish, Love You

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• If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

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  Emotional, Attachment, Names

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• Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

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  Selfish, Live Your Life, Demand

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  Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Spirituality, Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.97, Image

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• All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

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  Wells, Mess

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.5, Image

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• If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

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  Spiritual, Feet, People

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.38, Image

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• We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Fear Of The Unknown

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• As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

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  Happiness, Couple, Lying

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• You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

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  Distance, Stories, Humans

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• You can never be free
  as long as you have an ego to defend.

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  Long, Ego

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• "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 goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

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  Spiritual, Beauty Everywhere, Failing

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.55, Image

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• Both what you run from-
  and what you yearn for -
  are within you.

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  Running, Within You

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• 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 to you to question them.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

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  Eye, Objectivity, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.74, Image

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• All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

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  Giving, Awareness, Self Awareness

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• You do not have to change for God to love you.

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  Love You

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• Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

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  Love Is, Light, Evil People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.34, Image

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• You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

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  Order, Add

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• ‎"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 attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

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  Love You, Attachment, Trying

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• 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.

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  Compassion, Race, Silence

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

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  Ambition, Greed, Life Is

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

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  Loneliness, Learning, Knowledge

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.55, Image

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• When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

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  Fighting, Long, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.15, Image

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• Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

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  Reality, Light, Darkness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.7, Image

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