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“"Why is everyone here so happy except me?"
"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master.
"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?"
"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."”

Anthony de Mello

Projection
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.”

Anthony de Mello

Fearlessness
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”

Anthony de Mello

Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.”

Anthony de Mello

Trust
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.”

Anthony de Mello

On people accustomed to judging and dismissing the worth of other people based on categorical assessments, in "Assorted Landmines", p. 148
Awareness (1992)

“Look for competence not claims.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 84

“What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 22

“The best things in life cannot be willed into being.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 114

“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”

Anthony de Mello

Thought
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.”

Anthony de Mello

Flow
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 91

“My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. One sign that you're awakened is that you don't give a damn about what's going to happen in the next life. You're not bothered about it; you don't care. You are not interested, period.”

Anthony de Mello

"The Illusion of Rewards", p. 42
Awareness (1992)

“Is there life before death? — that is the question!”

Anthony de Mello

Irrelevance
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.”

Anthony de Mello

Judgement
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.”

Anthony de Mello

"Assorted Landmines", p. 148
Awareness (1992)

“The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.”

Anthony de Mello

Identity
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.”

Anthony de Mello

Cultivation
One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 114

“Johnny goes to modeling class in his school for special children and he gets his piece of putty and he's modeling it. He takes a little lump of putty and goes to a corner of the room and he's playing with it. The teacher comes up to him and says, "Hi, Johnny." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the teacher says, "What's that you've got in your hand?" And Johnny says, "This is a lump of cow dung." The teacher asks, "What are you making out of it?" He says, "I'm making a teacher."
The teacher thought, "Little Johnny has regressed." So she calls out to the principal, who was passing by the door at that moment, and says, "Johnny has regressed."
So the principal goes up to Johnny and says, "Hi, son." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the principal says, "What do you have in your hand?" And he says, "A lump of cow dung." "What are you making out of it?" And he says, "A principal."
The principal thinks that this is a case for the school psychologist. "Send for the psychologist!"
The psychologist is a clever guy. He goes up and says, "Hi." And Johnny says, "Hi." And the psychologist says, "I know what you've got in your hand." "What?" "A lump cow dung." Johnny says, "Right." "And I know what you're making out of it." "What?" "You're making a psychologist."”

Anthony de Mello

"Wrong. Not enough cow dung!"
Spirituality Course", p. 13
Awareness (1992)

“One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.”

Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 177