Anthony de Mello Quotes about Life

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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Pain, Growth

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, 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

Life, Children, Learning

"Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Success, Spiritual

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Thinking, Needs

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Christian, People

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.5, Image

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Cease, Destroyed

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.111, Image

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Anthony de Mello

Life, People, Action

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.39, Image

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

Life, Spiritual, Matter

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.169, Image