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
reality
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
teacher wish
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
may visitors followers
To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .
feel-good world awareness
The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
ocean people frogs
Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
height spirit raises
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
can-do
There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
moon sage idiot
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
rivers water gone
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
law obedience break
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.'
ambition order greed
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.
congratulations mean lovely
Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.
distance frustrated stories
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'
spiritual hate guilt
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?