Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello
Anthony "Tony" de Mellowas an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer and public speaker, De Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences. He continues to be known for his unconventional approach to the priesthood and his storytelling which drew from the various mystical traditions of both East and West...
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth4 September 1931
Anthony de Mello quotes about
thinking ulcers rich
The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
eye rose doe
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
description distortion used
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
taught
Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .
selfish butterfly eagles
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
thinking mind lazy
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
unlearn
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
spiritual eye heart
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
emotional attachment names
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
enlightenment cooperation inevitable
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
eye giving suffering
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
attachment ease illusion
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
finals masters barriers
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
rain flower garden
As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.