Anthony de Mello Quotes

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Perception is reality.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

Reality is mind-made.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

We live in condensations of our imagination

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.