Anthony de Mello Quotes

• Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

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• When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

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• Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

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• Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?

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• Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

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• The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

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• It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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• Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

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• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

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• 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.

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• Problems only exist in the human mind.

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Anthony de Mello (11)

Birth:	4th September, 1931
Death:	2nd June, 1987
Nationality:	American, Indian
Profession:	Author, Priest, Psychotherapist, Teacher

About

Anthony de Mello was born in Bombay. He was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer and public speaker, De Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual conferences. De Mello was ordained into the priesthood in March 1961. His first published book Sadhana - A way to God was released in 1978. Other books published during his lifetime include The Song of the Bird, One Minute Wisdom and Wellsprings.

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