Anthony de Mello Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Sensitive

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.140, Image

• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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

• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

• It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Delight

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.7, Image

• Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

  Anthony de Mello

  Goodbye, Heart, Yesterday

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.227, Image

• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  Anthony de Mello

  Father, Heart, Relative Value

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

• If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

  Anthony de Mello

  Heart, Results, Ifs

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.160, Image

• If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

  Anthony de Mello

  Heart, Eye, Fire

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.121, Image

• The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.

  Anthony de Mello

  Song, Heart, Wind

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.4, Image

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