Awareness De Mello Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride — Rahul Dravid

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

He doesn't love me yet, but in this place of death, in this precious moment of shared relief, he holds me. — Rae Carson

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

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose. — Georges St-Pierre

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

Love springs from awareness. — Anthony De Mello

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. — Stephen Lewis

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

Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives - to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. ... Once everything is written down, it's easier to see which tasks are important and in what order to tackle them. Tasks that seem overwhelming look easier when reduced to mere lines on paper. — Sasha Cagen

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

[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve. — Anne Lamott

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms. — Mason Cooley

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've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing. — Michael Pitt

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God. — Joshua Harris

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