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 The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers. Anthony de Mello ulcers rich thinking A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers. Anthony de Mello eye taken religious The best things in life cannot be willed into being. Anthony de Mello best-things best-things-in-life things-in-life One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. Anthony de Mello hibernation twenties years So love the thought of death, love it. Anthony de Mello thoughts-of-death death The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic. Anthony de Mello logic devil perfect I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking. Anthony de Mello being-yourself way thinking The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. Anthony de Mello learning ideas knowledge You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying. Anthony de Mello feel-good spiritual world Look for competence not claims. Anthony de Mello competence claims looks A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters. Anthony de Mello fool like-you world 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 frustrated distance stories Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts? Anthony de Mello ocean religious spiritual Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel. Anthony de Mello activity spirituality states If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am. Anthony de Mello refuse harm authority Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper? Anthony de Mello distance doe sun When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. Anthony de Mello sage idiot moon Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts. Anthony de Mello suicide religious men The only way to change is by changing your understanding. Anthony de Mello understanding way One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego. Anthony de Mello joyful ego steps
