Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“It’s a great thing to have suffered. Only then can you get sick of it. You can make use of suffering to end suffering.”
16 Nov“What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any person or thing.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“The world, power, prestige, winning, success, honor, etc., are nonexistent things. You gain the world but you lose your soul. – There’s nothing there.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Ideas actually fragment the vision, intuition or experience of reality as a whole. – Words cannot give you reality. They only point, they only indicate. You use them as pointers to get to reality. But once you get there, your concepts are useless.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“What is this thing called ‘culture?’ – Does it mean you’d like to do something because you were conditioned to do it? That you’d like to feel something because you were conditioned to feel it? Isn’t that being mechanical? – Now, if you want to wear your culture the way you wear your clothes, that’s fine.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”