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.

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.

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.

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

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

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

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

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

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

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.

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

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.

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.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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.

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.