Top 100 Mello Quotes
#1. I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.
Logan Marshall-Green
#2. I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.
Roopal Patel
#3. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#4. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#5. The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas.
Anthony De Mello
#6. When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories .
Anthony De Mello
#7. Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony De Mello
#8. Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Anthony De Mello
#9. The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony De Mello
#10. Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you ... I'm so sorry ...
Tsugumi Ohba
#11. 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#12. Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.
Anthony De Mello
#13. To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
Anthony De Mello
#15. The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
Anthony De Mello
#16. As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
Anthony De Mello
#19. That night we slept apart, all those unexplored continents reemerged on the atlas of your bed.
Rosalyn D'Mello
#20. What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.
Craig Mello
#21. Both what you run from-
and what you yearn for -
are within you.
Anthony De Mello
#23. Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony De Mello
#24. Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
Anthony De Mello
#25. Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
Anthony De Mello
#26. Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.
Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen
#27. This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
Anthony De Mello
#28. A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
Anthony De Mello
#29. The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
Anthony De Mello
#30. The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Anthony De Mello
#31. I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Anthony De Mello
#32. Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
Anthony De Mello
#33. 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.
Anthony De Mello
#34. Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
Anthony De Mello
#36. A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
Anthony De Mello
#37. Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
Anthony De Mello
#38. One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever."
Anthony De Mello
#39. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Anthony De Mello
#40. Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when
you are alone?
Anthony De Mello
#41. If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
Anthony De Mello
#42. 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.
Anthony De Mello
#43. I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
Anthony De Mello
#44. Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
Anthony De Mello
#46. 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.
Anthony De Mello
#47. 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
#48. Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Anthony De Mello
#49. The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
Anthony De Mello
#50. The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.
Craig Mello
#52. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony De Mello
#53. One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony De Mello
#54. Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Anthony De Mello
#55. I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.
Saffron Mello Castro
#56. If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Anthony De Mello
#57. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
Anthony De Mello
#59. People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
Anthony De Mello
#60. To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."
Anthony De Mello
#63. Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the organization. The only way to have peace is to let it grow wild.
Anthony De Mello
#64. book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible.
Rosalyn D'Mello
#65. You can never be free
as long as you have an ego to defend.
Anthony De Mello
#67. What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.
Anthony De Mello
#68. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
Anthony De Mello
#69. There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.
Anthony De Mello
#70. To hell with Kira.
What matters to me is L.
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#71. A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.
Anthony De Mello
#72. You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
Anthony De Mello
#73. This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
Anthony De Mello
#74. What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
Anthony De Mello
#75. Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is one of the eternal truths and, as such, raises the spirit to the same level on which we feel the presence of God.
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#76. These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
Anthony De Mello
#77. We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
Anthony De Mello
#78. When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Anthony De Mello
#79. Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
Anthony De Mello
#80. Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.
Anthony De Mello
#81. You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.
Anthony De Mello
#82. In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
Anthony De Mello
#84. I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
Anthony De Mello
#85. There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
Anthony De Mello
#86. When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
Anthony De Mello
#87. What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.
Anthony De Mello
#90. RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
Craig Mello
#92. I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.
Craig Mello
#93. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Anthony De Mello
#95. If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Anthony De Mello
#96. Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
Anthony De Mello
#97. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
Anthony De Mello
#98. The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
Anthony De Mello
#99. What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Anthony De Mello
#100. When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
Anthony De Mello
