Anthony de Mello Quotes

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• What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Spirituality

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.71, Image

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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!

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Selfish, Love You

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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.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Spring

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.163, 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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• Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

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  Selfish, Live Your Life, Demand

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• Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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  Life, Pain, Growth

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, 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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• 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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• When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

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  Fighting, Long, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.15, Image

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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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• "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

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  Spiritual, Serenity, Secret

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• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

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  Self, Silence, Sound

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.126, Image

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

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  Love, Absence, Masters

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.203, Image

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• Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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  Enlightenment, Cooperation, Inevitable

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• You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

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  Grateful, Sanctify

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.238, Image

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

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  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• Extend
  your arms
  in welcome
  to the future.
  The best
  is yet to come!

  Anthony de Mello

  Best Is Yet To Come, Arms, Welcome

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.239, Image

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• Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

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  Loneliness, Learning, Knowledge

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.55, Image

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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.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.34, Image

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• Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

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  Mistake, Attempting, Biggest Mistake

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 20, 1992.

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

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  Persons

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

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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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• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

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  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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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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• If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

  Anthony de Mello

  Needs, Said, Ifs

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