Anthony de Mello Quotes

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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

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
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

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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.

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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

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Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

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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.

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Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

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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