“You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.”
― Anthony de Mello
― Anthony de Mello
“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”
― Anthony de Mello
― Anthony de Mello
tags: stories-life
“Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.”
― Anthony de Mello
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.”
― Anthony de Mello
tags: jesuit, religion, spirituality
“As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
tags: awareness, spirituality
“If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
“We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
“Mintalah hati yang damai, walau dalam keadaan apa pun juga.”
― Anthony de Mello
― Anthony de Mello
“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
“If you find me charming, it means that right now you’re in a good mood, nothing more.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
“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
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.”
― Anthony de Mello
“Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
“The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
tags: awareness, reality, self-observation
“There are three stages in one’s spiritual development,” said the Master. “The carnal, the spiritual and the divine.” “What is the carnal stage?” asked the eager disciples. “That’s the stage when trees are seen as trees and mountains as mountains.” “And the spiritual?” “That’s when one looks more deeply into things—then trees are no longer trees and mountains no longer mountains.” “And the divine?” “Ah, that’s Enlightenment,” said the Master with a chuckle, “when trees become trees again and mountains, mountains.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
“What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.”
― Anthony de Mello
― Anthony de Mello
“We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
tags: perception, perspective, reality
“Because left to its own devices life would never produce love, it would only lead you to attraction, from attraction to pleasure, then to attachment, to satisfaction, which finally leads to wearisomeness and boredom. Then comes a plateau. Then once again the weary cycle: attraction, pleasure, attachment, fulfillment, satisfaction, boredom. All of this mixed with the anxieties, the jealousies, the possessiveness, the sorrow, the pain, that make the cycle a roller coaster. When you have gone repeatedly around and around the cycle, a time finally comes when you have had enough and want to call a halt to the whole process. And if you are lucky enough not to run into something or someone else that catches your eye, you will have at least attained a fragile peace. That is the most that life can give you; and you can mistakenly equate this state with freedom and you die without ever having known what it means to be really free and to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
“There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
tags: mindfulness
“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
“Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
tags: condescension, tolerance
“Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
“I lack the Lord’s own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.”
― Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings
― Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings
“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, The Way to Love
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
“There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
“SERENITY “Are there ways for gauging one’s spiritual strength?” “Many.” “Give us one.” “Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
“It isn't falling in that causes you to drown, it's staying in.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
“People don’t really want to grow up, people don’t really want to change, people don’t really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, “Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
“Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the organization. The only way to have peace is to let it grow wild.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight
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