Quote

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Anthony de Mello

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Peace
True
Disturbance
Ego
Brings
Seek
Protect

More quotes by Anthony de Mello

Image
No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony de Mello
Image
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
Anthony de Mello
Image
You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
Anthony de Mello
Image
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
Anthony de Mello
Image
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
Anthony de Mello
Image
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony de Mello
Image
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello
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
Image
The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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
Image
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony de Mello
Image
A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
Anthony de Mello
Image
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
Anthony de Mello
Image
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony de Mello
Image
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Anthony de Mello
Image
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
Anthony de Mello
Image
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
Anthony de Mello
Image
Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
Anthony de Mello
Image
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
Anthony de Mello
Image
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
Image
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
Anthony de Mello