Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
Anthony de Mello
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Yearn
Within
Running
More quotes by Anthony de Mello
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
Anthony de Mello
I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony de Mello
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
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
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
The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
Anthony de Mello
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
Anthony de Mello
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
Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
Anthony de Mello
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
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Anthony de Mello
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
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
Anthony de Mello
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
There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Anthony de Mello
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
Anthony de Mello
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
Anthony de Mello
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
Anthony de Mello