Anthony de Mello Quotes

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

America has spiritual energy in her in which no other nation can contribute to the liberation of mankind.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

Starting with the lyrics, 'Only scared of myself and the truth in the stars/I'm a king, I'm the dirt, God within me shine,' the first half of '6 Weeks' delves into my attempts to balance the notion that I have an existential purpose with the realization that I am nothing against the vastness of the universe.

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend the entire truth; the explanation and teachings of masters and saints express only part of the whole. It is not possible for anyone to speak of such things in their entirety. Just head for the light and heat, learn from the gods, and through the virtue of devoted practice of the Art of Peace, become one with the divine.