Anthony de Mello Quotes

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

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.

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.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

I have no fear of losing you, 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

I have no fear of losing you, 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

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

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

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

"As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.