10 Quotes by Anthony de Mello about awareness
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
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.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
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.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
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.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Anthony de Mello
-
Quote
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
- Tags
- Share