“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

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“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 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“An attachment detroys your capacity to love. What is love? Love is sensitivity, love is consciousness.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“The only way to change is by changing your understanding.”

16 Nov

Anthony 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 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“We are filtering things constantly. – Who’s doing the filtering? It’s called attachment, desire, craving. The root of sorrow is craving.”

16 Nov

Anthony 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 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.”

16 Nov

Anthony 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 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”