Top 26 Awareness Anthony De Mello Quotes
#2. 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
#3. We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.
Miriam Toews
#4. Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions.
Ellen J. Barrier
#6. Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
William Shakespeare
#7. The world is right because I feel good.
p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
Anthony De Mello
#8. True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
Anthony De Mello
#9. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony De Mello
#11. Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
Anthony De Mello
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
William J.H. Boetcker
#17. The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.
Rollo May
#18. Why does everyone make fun of New Jersey? It's beautiful here," she said.
"We live in America."
"What does that mean?"
"People like to judge without knowing.
Rich Marcello
#19. I dislike weeping", I muttered.
"God gave us a variety of ways to get hurt out and do it clean. Blood cleans a wound, tears clean a different kind of wound...
Kristen Ashley
#20. 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
#21. Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#22. 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
#23. Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
Ariel Gore
#24. All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
Brian Perkins
#25. It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.
Reese Witherspoon
#26. If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.
Norman W. Walker
