Quotes from Anthony de Mello

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

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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

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

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

So love the thought of death, love it.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?

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.'

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

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.

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.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

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.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!