4 Anthony de Mello Quotes on Psychology

Anthony de Mello quotes on psychology

7. As you identify less and less with the 'me,' you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last! You no longer feel the need or the compulsion to explain things anymore. It's all right. What is there to be explained? And you don't feel the need or compulsion to apologize anymore. I'd much rather hear you say, 'I've come awake,' than hear you say, 'I'm sorry.' I'd much rather hear you say to me, 'I've come awake since we last met; what I did to you won't happen again,' than to hear you say, 'I'm so sorry for what I did to you.'

12. If you just swallow everything I am telling you, I am brainwashing you.

25. The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.

34. Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.