Wisdom Quote by Anthony de Mello — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”

“‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”

“The philosopher”

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

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”

“If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.”

“Talks pursued under influence of alcohol and rage do not lead to anything good”

“What you give your energy to must sustain you, not quielty drain you.”

“Life is not just lived—it is observed, dissected, and reimagined. Through storms, through heights, we become.”

“The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.”

“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other person out when need be, if they are hiding from some hard reality. “Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”

“I am well practiced in avoidance and indifference though the hollowness in my soul resents her absence; I wear the mask I must.”