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“You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“U krivu sam.
Da me bolje poznajete vidjeli biste kako sam �esto u krivu. Što biste drugo mogli o�ekivati
od jedne budale?”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

tags: ignorance, tolerance, truth

“Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.'

Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters

tags: love

“Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I’ve got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you’re in love with your prejudiced idea of that person.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“What’s the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.”
― Anthony de Mello, Walking on Water: Reaching God in Our Time

“To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters

“The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don’t.”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight

“Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“God went mad out of love for us. Then we must be very lovely. What we have stressed in the past is how lovely God must be that he can love us like this. But nobody has yet said how lovely we must be, that God could fall for us like this. Both are true.”
― Anthony de Mello, Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

“And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight

“Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.”
― Anthony de Mello

“A tu gde je strah nema ljubavi, jer uvek mrzimo ono čega se plašimo.”
― Anthony de Mello, A new day in your life

“And more assumptions: A married couple was returning from the funeral of Uncle George, who had lived with them for twenty years and had been such a nuisance that he almost succeeded in wrecking their marriage. “There is something I have to say to you, dear,” said the man. “If it hadn’t been for my love for you, I wouldn’t have put up with your Uncle George for a single day.” “My Uncle George!” she exclaimed in horror. “I thought he was your Uncle George!”
― Anthony de Mello, Taking Flight

“The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“Like the little girl who says to a little boy, “Are you a Presbyterian?” And he says, “No, we belong to another abomination!”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn’t the future just another trap?”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sightthat will bring about love.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters

“If you ever allow yourself to see it will be the death of you. And that is why love is so terrifying, for to love is to see and to see is to die. But it is the most delightful exhilarating experience in the whole world. For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“The consequence of all this is terrifying and inescapable: You have become incapable of loving anyone or anything. If you wish to love you must learn to see again. And if you wish to see you must give up your drug. You must tear away from your being the roots of society that have penetrated to the marrow. You must drop out. Externally everything will go on as before, you will continue to be in the world, but no longer of it. And in your heart you will now be free at last and utterly alone. It is only in this aloneness, this utter solitude, that dependence and desire will die, and the capacity to love is born. For one no longer sees others as means to satisfy one’s addiction.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“There is another way besides laborious self-punishment on the one hand and stagnant acceptance on the other. It is the way of self-understanding. This is far from easy because to understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love

“If your God comes to your rescue and gets you out of trouble it is time you started looking for the true God.”
― Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings