Anthony de Mello Quotes

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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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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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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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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

Spiritual, Heart, Eye

Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.34, 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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You can never be free
as long as you have an ego to defend.

Anthony de Mello

Long, Ego

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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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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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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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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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‎"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.

Anthony de Mello

Compassion, Race, Silence

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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.

Anthony de Mello

Happiness, Couple, Lying

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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

Anthony de Mello

Persons

Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.34, 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.

Anthony de Mello

Inspirational, Courage, Spring

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

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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Anthony de Mello

Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

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

Anthony de Mello

Order, Add

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, 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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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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What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

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Inspirational, Play, Symphony

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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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?

Anthony de Mello

Change, Lying, Looks

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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.

Anthony de Mello

Spiritual, Reality, People

"Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".

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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.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Thinking, Needs

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

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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

Teacher, Mean, Stories

"One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 112, 1992.

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Born: September 4, 1931
Died: June 2, 1987
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