Quote

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

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
Social
Herds
Need
Liberation
Needs
Describe
Thing
Belong
Would
Master
Masters
Courses
Course
Herd

More quotes by Anthony de Mello

Image
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
Anthony de Mello
Image
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Anthony de Mello
Image
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Anthony de Mello
Image
If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
Anthony de Mello
Image
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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
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
Image
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
Image
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
Anthony de Mello
Image
What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
Image
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Anthony de Mello
Image
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony de Mello
Image
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
Anthony de Mello
Image
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
Anthony de Mello
Image
Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
Anthony de Mello
Image
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
Image
You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
Anthony de Mello
Image
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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
Said the master: Where does your question come from?
Anthony de Mello