"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."
Anthony de MelloYou are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
Anthony de MelloMy 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.
Anthony de MelloRare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
Anthony de MelloSpirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
Anthony de Mello