Anthony De Mello Quotes
Anthony De Mello Quotes
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
3803 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.
3634 Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
2138 When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
4857 Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
1774 The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.
1790 Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
2562 What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
1846 A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
1926 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.
2441 We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.
3466 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… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.
4161 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.
4166 Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
1775 As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.
2409 If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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