{"author":"Anthony de Mello","author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awakening","progress","spirituality"],"id":7402,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"As one man said, 'I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.' That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awareness","spirituality"],"id":40392,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awareness","happiness","love"],"id":47038,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["perception","perspective","reality"],"id":71320,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awareness","concepts","thought"],"id":79522,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["god","knowledge","mysticism","unknowing"],"id":96281,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awakening","bitterness","dying","harmony","spirituality","truth"],"id":120670,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"The world is right because I feel good.P. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awareness"],"id":133551,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["awakening","truth","wisdom"],"id":154045,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"},{"text":"Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.Faith?' said the Master.He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?'That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.","author":"Anthony de Mello","tags":["jesuit","religion","spirituality"],"id":162519,"author_id":"Anthony+de+Mello"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}