Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Someone
Reach
Practical
Earth
Masters
Height
Offenses
Effects
Raise
Offends
Ready
Raises
Skeptic
Name
Spirituality
Heights
Names
Master
Offense
Spirit
Effect
Spirits
Cannot
Argument
Practicals
More quotes by Anthony de Mello
Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
Anthony de Mello
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
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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
A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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
To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
Anthony de Mello
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
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
Anthony de Mello
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
Anthony de Mello
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
Anthony de Mello
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
Anthony de Mello
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
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
Anthony de Mello
You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
Anthony de Mello
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
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
What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
Anthony de Mello
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello