Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. Anthony de Mello More Quotes by Anthony de Mello More Quotes From Anthony de Mello All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Anthony de Mello mess wells If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique. Anthony de Mello bored unique looks 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. Anthony de Mello self challenges ideas It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Anthony de Mello illusion attachment ease 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 delight spiritual heart You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Anthony de Mello ambition spiritual order Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you. Anthony de Mello boss crazy reality You sanctify whatever you are grateful for. Anthony de Mello sanctify grateful As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. Anthony de Mello garden flower rain You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone. Anthony de Mello disciple eye "My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between." Anthony de Mello taught spiritual lying When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. Anthony de Mello cease destroyed life People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. Anthony de Mello ruthless people ideas Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die. Anthony de Mello alive flower looks The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent. Anthony de Mello laos buddhist rose The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one. Anthony de Mello eye doe rose Love springs from awareness. Anthony de Mello awareness spring Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness. Anthony de Mello lazy mind thinking Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught. Anthony de Mello taught Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd. Anthony de Mello herds social needs
