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1 " 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 , Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
2 " Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise. "
― Anthony de Mello
3 " If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. "
4 " Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. "
― Anthony de Mello , One Minute Wisdom
5 " The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body. "
― Anthony de Mello , Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
6 " Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. "
7 " When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. "
8 " The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. "
9 " I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home. "
10 " As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. "
11 " 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. "
12 " People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. "
13 " Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. "
14 " 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. "
15 " A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. "
16 " 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. "
17 " We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. "
18 " People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. "
19 " True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned. "
― Anthony de Mello , The Way to Love
20 " When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. "
