Anthony de Mello Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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  Life, Pain, Growth

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, 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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• "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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• Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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  Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

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• You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

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  Change

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.56, Image

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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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• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

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  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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• If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

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  Children, Flower, Mean

  "The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

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• The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

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  Kings, Bread, Philosopher

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.86, Image

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Hurt, People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.113, Image

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

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  Pain, Stupid, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, 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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• The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

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  Love, Hate, Achievement

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.59, 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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• A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Spring

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.163, Image

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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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