Anthony De Mello Awareness Quotes & Sayings

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. — Emma Goldman

That's the thing about Lionsgate. They are fearless. No other studio would have made 'Hunger Games' the way they did. They're being fearless in the way they make decisions, and it's paying off for them. — Drew Goddard

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness. — David A. Bednar

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment. — Anthony De Mello

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. — El Lissitzky

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. — Anthony De Mello

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth. — Neale Donald Walsch

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned. — Anthony De Mello

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids. — Bruce Jenner

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. — Geoff Mulgan

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. — Sam Shepard

Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them. — Charles Capps

But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion. — Isabel Allende

Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you. — Anthony De Mello

The world is right because I feel good.
p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990 — Anthony De Mello

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. — Anthony De Mello

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young. — Lexa Doig

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you. — Anthony De Mello

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself. — Anthony De Mello

Love springs from awareness. — Anthony De Mello

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. — D.H. Lawrence

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment — Sunday Adelaja

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. — Anthony De Mello

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. — Anthony De Mello

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony De Mello

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. — Anthony De Mello

I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear — Josh Stern

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. — Anthony De Mello