Anthony de Mello Quotes

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

Is there life before death? – that is the question!

Both what you run from- and what you yearn for – are within you.

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

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

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.

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.

The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all – they are attempting nothing new.

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.

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

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.