Anthony de Mello Quotes

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

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

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.’

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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

Look for competence not claims.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I’m gone, I trust you will notice the river.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

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

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

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