359 Quotes by Anthony de Mello




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    As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

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    We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.

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    There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

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    O HAPPY FAULT!The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had acurious way of praying to God.“Remember, Lord,” he would say,“you need me just as much as Ineed you. If you did not exist,whom would I pray to? If I didnot exist, who would do the praying?”It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

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

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