Quotes from Anthony de Mello

May the peace of God disturb you always.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.

Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

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

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

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

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

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.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

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

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

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.