This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know. — Anthony De Mello

Problems only exist in the human mind. — Anthony De Mello

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth. — Anthony De Mello

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony De Mello

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. — Anthony De Mello

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. — Anthony De Mello

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth. — Anthony De Mello

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth. — 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

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. — Anthony De Mello

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.’ ‘I know. An overwhelming passion for it.’ ‘No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. — Anthony De Mello

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story. — Anthony De Mello

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony De Mello

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. — Anthony De Mello

The only way to change is by changing your understanding. — Anthony De Mello

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes. — Anthony De Mello

Don’t ask the world to change….you change first. — Anthony De Mello

You do not have to change for God to love you. — Anthony De Mello

Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you. — Anthony De Mello

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth. — 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

You sanctify whatever you are grateful for. — Anthony De Mello

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony De Mello

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. — Anthony De Mello

You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. — Anthony De Mello

May the peace of God disturb you always. — Anthony De Mello

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. — Anthony De Mello

The best things in life cannot be willed into being. — Anthony De Mello

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. — Anthony De Mello

Is there life before death?–that is the question! — 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

My experience is that it’s precisely the ones who don’t know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. — Anthony De Mello

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. — 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

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. — Anthony De Mello

The greatest learning of The ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. — 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

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic. — Anthony De Mello

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

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

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

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

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any persons or things. — Anthony De Mello

If you don’t look at things through your concepts, you’ll never be bored. Every single thing is unique. — Anthony De Mello

Said the master: ‘Where does your question come from? — Anthony De Mello

What is the secret of your serenity?’ Said the master: ‘Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable. — Anthony De Mello

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God. — Anthony De Mello

What is my identity ?’ ‘Nothing,’ said the Master. ‘You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?’ said the incredulous disciple. ‘Nothing that can be labeled.’ said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

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

Isn’t there such a thing as social liberation?’ ‘Of course there is,’ said the Master. ‘How would you describe it?’ ‘Liberation from the need to belong to the herd. — Anthony De Mello

Said the monk: ‘All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars–where do they come from?’ Said the master: ‘Where does your question come from? — Anthony De Mello

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. ‘What do you want him to be when he grows up?’ someone asked. ‘Outrageously happy,’ said the master. — Anthony De Mello

My former master taught me to accept birth and death.’ ‘Then what have you come to me for?’ asked the master. ‘To learn to accept what lies in between. — Anthony De Mello

As the Japanese Zen masters say, ‘Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions’. Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth. — Anthony De Mello

What is the work of a Master?’ said a solemn–faced visitor. ‘To teach people to laugh ,’ said the Master gravely. — Anthony De Mello

That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners,’ said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories. — Anthony De Mello

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. ‘Obedience keeps the rules,’ he would say. ‘Love knows when to break them.’ — Anthony De Mello

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 — Anthony De Mello

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That’s what all the mystics are saying. — 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

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology. — Anthony De Mello

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. — Anthony De Mello