Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

— Anthony de Mello

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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

— Anthony de Mello

Deep About Life Awakening Mental Health About Believing

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

— Anthony de Mello

So love the thought of death, love it.

— Anthony de Mello

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song – not one. Not two.

— Anthony de Mello

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

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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

You’ve got to drop something. You’ve got to drop illusions. You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

— Anthony de Mello

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

— 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

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

— Anthony de Mello

In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

— 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

We’re crazy, We’re living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Anthony de Mello

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

— Anthony de Mello

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

— Anthony de Mello

There’s nothing you can do to see – it is a gift.

— Anthony de Mello

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition...

— Anthony de Mello

The seeker says, “I do not know.” That takes honesty. The master says, “I do not know.” That takes a mystic’s mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, “I know.” That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Anthony de Mello

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