Anthony de Mello Quotes

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.

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

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

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.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.