
100 - A Strange Trick of the Mind
You are not your depression. You are not your anxiety or stress. That is but a strange kind of trick of the mind, a strange kind of illusion...
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This series of 3 to 5 minute podcasts of Anthony DeMello awaken you to the simple truth that you possess everything you need right now to be living a happy, meaningful and rich life.

You are not your depression. You are not your anxiety or stress. That is but a strange kind of trick of the mind, a strange kind of illusion...

I want to give you a taste of the difference between analysis and awareness, or information on the one hand and insight on the other. I want...

Dag Hammarskjöld, the former UN Secretary-General, put it so beautifully: “God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal dei...

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. Desire breeds anxiety but we don't want to see it. But w...

If the eye is unobstructed, it results in sight; if the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing; if the nose is unobstructed, the result...

Listening to this podcast could be the most important few minutes in your lives. If you could grasp it, you’d hit upon the secret of awakeni...

"Silence is the great revelation, " said Lao-tse. We are accustomed to think of Scripture as the revelation of God. And so it is. I want you...

One cannot say anything about the awakened state; one can only talk about the sleeping state. One hints at the awakened state. One cannot sa...

Slow down and taste and smell and hear, and let your senses come alive. That is extremely important for the process of change. If you want a...

We filter out life constantly, so much so that often we don’t see the reality of what is there. Where does the filtering come from? It's our...

The heart in love remains soft and sensitive. But when you’re hell-bent on getting this or that thing or result or person, you become ruthle...

Suppress your desire and you are likely to be tied to it. Whereas if you look at your desire and see it for what it is really worth, and how...

Is psychology more practical than spirituality? Nothing is more practical than spirituality. What can the poor psychologist do? He can only...

I want to give you a taste of the difference between analysis and awareness, or information on the one hand and insight on the other. Inform...

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance. The only tragedy there is in the w...

The only way to change is by changing your understanding. But what does it mean to understand? How do we go about it? Consider how we’re ens...

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you’re living in an illusion. There’s something seriously wrong with you. You’re not seei...

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. This doesn’t mean you should drop your concepts totally; they’re...

Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself? How about being transformed yourself first? But how do you achieve that?...

It’s quite false to think that the way to deny the self is to cause pain to the self, to go in for abnegation, mortification, as these were...

The first thing to understand, if you really want to wake up, is that you don’t want to wake up. The first step to waking up is to be honest...

There is a point I want to make that has to do with happiness. It is one of my favorite stories. You know, sometimes a story says more than...

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death. There’s a story about some people who were on a raft off the c...

We’re scared about things that are not. We’re tied to things that don’t exist. They’re illusions. They’re falsehoods. They’re beliefs; they’...

Look into your own heart. Can you say? Oh, there's anger and quarrels in my life but there is no rancor, no bitterness, no hatred. Can you s...

"I discovered something about ten years ago," Anthony De Mello states, "and it revolutionized my life. I became a new man. Later, having dis...

You were given a taste of various psychosocial addictions: approval, attention, success, making it to the top, prestige, getting your name i...

To exterminate the darkness, pronounce the name over each part of your being that is in need of healing (your heart … your mind … your limbs...

How do you surrender. Begin by seeking silence. For this, come home to yourself. Come to the present. Ask yourself: Where am I right now? Wh...

Imagine you walk into a church. The candles on the altar are the only source of light. You rest your eyes upon the host at the altar that st...

God says, “Give me your heart.” And then, in answer to our puzzlement, we might hear God say, “Your heart is where your treasure is.” What t...

Imagine that you walk into a desert to contemplate your life. Immediately, you see how frequently you rush outside yourself —to people, occu...

Imagine you are in the presence of Christ and you ask him to give you a list of everything in you he finds defective— each indication of sel...

If you could choose the circumstances of your death, what would you choose? When your life is coming to an end, how many experiences shall y...

In this next session of the Wellsprings Series, Anthony De Mello provides the simple, foundational elements that lead to an enlightened life...

Anthony De Mello takes your mind on a vacation to find the place inside of you that steps out to the vast stillness of Heaven.

In this podcast, Anthony De Mello introduces his Wellsprings Series and discusses the spiritual power it holds to transform your life experi...

Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself? How about being transformed yourself first? How do you achieve that? Thr...

The first thing you need to do to wake up is get in touch with negative feelings that you’re not even aware of. Lots of people have negative...

The great masters tell us that The Most Important Question in the world is: “Who am I?” Or rather: “What is ‘I’?” What is this thing I call...

The harder you try to change, the worse it can get. Does this mean that a certain degree of passivity is all right? Yes, the more you resist...

Some people make awakening a goal. They are determined to get there; they say, “I refuse to be happy until I’m awakened.” In that case, it’s...

Anthony De Mello in a nutshell.

Do not suppress desire, because then you would become lifeless. You’d be without energy and that would be terrible. Desire in the healthy se...

A scientist observes the behavior of ants with no further end in view than to study ants, to learn as much as possible about them. He’s not...

Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself? How about being transformed yourself first? But how do you achieve that?...

The first thing I want you to understand, if you really want to wake up, is that you don’t want to wake up. The first step to waking up is t...

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. Understand too, that happiness is not the same as excite...

Love is generated through awareness and through no other way, no other way. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love,...

You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy. Happiness rel...