A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".
Anthony de MelloWhen you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
Anthony de MelloReligion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
Anthony de Mellothe tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
Anthony de Mello