Anthony de Mello Quotes

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Everything we see, everything that exists, is part of God.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

The true key of the universe is love.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.