Anthony de Mello Giving Quotations

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.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

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.

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.