Popular Quotes by Anthony De Mello

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• Problems only exist in the human mind.

  Anthony De Mello#Exist 69

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• 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!

  Anthony De Mello#Alone 59

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• Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

  Anthony De Mello#Break 59

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• 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.

  Anthony de Mello#Religion 52

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• People who want a cure provided they can have it without pain are like those who favour progress provided they can have it without change.

  Anthony de Mello#Progress 50

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• Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

  Anthony de Mello#Enlightenment 49

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• A thought is a screen not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope untouched by Reality.

  Anthony de Mello#Reality 41

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

  Anthony De Mello#Storytelling 38

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• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

  Anthony De Mello#Assume 28

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

  Anthony de Mello#Awareness 26

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