Anthony de Mello

“Don't just do something, sit there.”

“The root of sorrow is attachment.”

“Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”

“Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.”

“Perfect love casts out fear.”

“Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.”

“If you want to be happy, you have to be willing to be unhappy.”

“The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.”

“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”

“What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.”

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished.”

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

“There is only one evil in the world, and that is ignorance.”

“Life is a mystery, which means your mind cannot understand it.”

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.”

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

“Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.”

“The trouble with people is that they're busy fixing things they don't even understand.”

“To love is to be sensitive to the needs, the feelings, the welfare of the other.”

“When you fight a dragon, you become a dragon.”