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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

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  Goodbye, Heart, Yesterday

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.227, Image

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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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• 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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• the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

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  Lying, Age, Accepting

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• As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

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  Spiritual, Hurt, Desire

  "Awareness: The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 96, June 1, 1990.

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• The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

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  Change, Lying, Looks

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• Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

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  Mistake, Attempting, Biggest Mistake

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 20, 1992.

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• 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?"

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  Stars, Rivers, Mountain

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.28, Image

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

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  Selfish, Butterfly, Eggs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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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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• 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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• "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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• The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.

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  Pms, Live In The Moment, Mind

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

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  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

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  Being Yourself, Fear, Failure

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• You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

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  Life, Christian, People

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

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• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

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  Book, Writing, People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.40, Image

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

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• There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

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  Life, Thinking, Needs

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

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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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• 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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