Anthony de Mello

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#sin #guilt

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

— Anthony de Mello

#self-awareness #wisdom #self-awareness

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#knowledge #mysticism #unknowing #description

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#progress #spirituality #change

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#wisdom #change

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

— Anthony de Mello

#life

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#age

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#experience

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#beings #delight #fear #finds #first