Anthony de Mello

“Spirituality means waking up.”

“Don't change. Want to change. Be yourself.”

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head.”

“The only way someone can hurt you is by not living up to your expectations.”

“Happiness is our natural state. It is not something we have to earn or achieve.”

“Truth has no need to defend itself.”

“Look at the way you live and you will understand the way you love.”

“To love is to allow.”

“You will only be free when you understand that other people don't have to live up to your expectations.”

“You don't have to be loved by anyone. You don't have to be loved by all the world.”

“The only thing you really need is awareness.”

“Don't search. The very search prevents you from finding.”

“Pleasures of the senses always promise more than they can deliver.”

“True love is unconditional. If it has conditions, it is not love.”

“Anything you have ever called love is, in reality, an attachment.”

“To love is to see, with the clarity that comes from non-attachment.”

“Don't think of yourself as a mountain. Think of yourself as a river.”

“You will be surprised when you realize how little you really need.”

“The greatest mistake is to think that you are the body and the mind.”