Anthony de Mello Quotes

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I've realised I can be happy.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.