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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
— Anthony De Mello
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
— Anthony De Mello
Extend your arms
in welcome
to the future.
The best
is yet to come! — Anthony De Mello
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
— Anthony De Mello
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
— Anthony De Mello
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
— 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
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
— Anthony De Mello
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
— Anthony De Mello
Is there life before death? - that is the question!
— Anthony De Mello
True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
— Anthony De Mello
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
— Anthony De Mello
Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .
— Anthony De Mello
To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
— Anthony De Mello
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
— Anthony De Mello
You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
— Anthony De Mello
Problems only exist in the human mind.
— Anthony De Mello
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
— Anthony De Mello
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
— Anthony De Mello
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
— Anthony De Mello
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
— Anthony De Mello
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
— Anthony De Mello
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
— Anthony De Mello
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
— Anthony De Mello
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
— Anthony De Mello
The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
— Anthony De Mello
When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.
— Anthony De Mello
To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.
— Anthony De Mello
The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.
— Anthony De Mello