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Quotes from Awareness — Anthony de Mello

1931–1987 India

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28 quotes

I'd much rather hear you say, "I've come awake," than hear you say, "I'm sorry."

Awareness (1992)

We're always dying to things. We're always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and resurrected at every moment.

Awareness (1992)

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

Awareness (1992)

Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

Awareness (1992)

Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.

Awareness (1992)

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.

Awareness (1992)

Don't ask the world to change — you change first.

Awareness (1992)

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Awareness (1992)

You no longer feel the need or the compulsion to explain things anymore.

Awareness (1992)

People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

Awareness (1992)

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Awareness (1992)

Death is resurrection. We're talking not about some resurrection that will happen but about one that is happening right now.

Awareness (1992)

There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.

Awareness (1992)

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

Awareness (1992)

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Awareness (1992)

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that.

Awareness (1992)

The harder you try to change yourself the worse it gets. You are called upon to be aware.

Awareness (1992)

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.

Awareness (1992)

Eternal means timeless — no time. The human mind cannot understand that. The human mind can understand time and can deny time. What is timeless is beyond our comprehension.

Awareness (1992)

These are images of what love is about.

Awareness (1992)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony de Mello (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.