Anthony de Mello Quotes

No theory adequately covers reality.

"I wish to become a teacher of the Truth." "Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?" "I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?" "You will have grown accustomed to it."

U krivu sam.
Da me bolje poznajete vidjeli biste kako sam �esto u krivu. Što biste drugo mogli o�ekivati
od jedne budale?

What’s the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?

When you go out to the world because of the love that someone else has for you, you are all aglow not with your perception of reality but with the love that you have received from someone else; someone else controls the switch and when it is switched off the glow fades away.

Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened?
As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

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.

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

If your God comes to your rescue and gets you out of trouble it is time you started looking for the true God.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

So, we were born happy. We lost it. We were born with the gift of life. We lost it. We’ve got to rediscover it. Why did we lose it? Because we were working actively. They taught us to work actively, to make ourselves miserable. How did they do that? By teaching us to become attached. By teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.

"What is love?" "The total absence of fear," said the Master. "What is it we fear?" "Love," said the Master.