Anthony de Mello Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Attachment, Anxiety, Tragedy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.21, Image

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Pain, Growth

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, Image

• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  Anthony de Mello

  Distance, Frustrated, Stories

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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