– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“If you want anything too badly, you’re in big trouble. – You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn’t the future just another trap?”
1 Nov“If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Recall those lovely words of Buddha when he said, ‘Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect, but must analyze them the way a goldsmith analyzes gold – by cutting, scraping, rubbing, melting.”
1 NovAnthony de Mello on Buddha.
“You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person,”
27 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it, fine; if you don’t, too bad!”
27 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“That, ladies and gentleman, is faith! An openness to the truth, no matter the consequences, no matter where it leads you and when you don’t even know where it’s going to lead you. That’s faith. Not belief, but faith.”
26 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don’t have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude…an attitude of openness, of willingness to discover something new. I cannot describe the truth. No one can. All I can do is give you a description of your falsehoods so you can drop them.”
26 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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