What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. Anthony de Mello More Quotes by Anthony de Mello More Quotes From Anthony de Mello Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony de Mello organizeableworld A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you. Anthony de Mello waitinggivingyears As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology. Anthony de Mello realitylooksworld Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known. Anthony de Mello knownloss Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks. Anthony de Mello refusalrisksin Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality. Anthony de Mello realitypeopleideas Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new. Anthony de Mello biggest-mistakeattemptingmistake Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. Anthony de Mello actionlifepeople When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. Anthony de Mello heightraisesspirit We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. Anthony de Mello crazylifeideas People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg Anthony de Mello legsstepspeople The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one. Anthony de Mello divisionfoolishmind Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'. Anthony de Mello moongodthinking Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. Anthony de Mello used-to-beenlightenmentused Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is? Anthony de Mello reality Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed. Anthony de Mello my-attitudechangedattitude Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. Anthony de Mello tragedyignoranceevil A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them." Anthony de Mello pridespiritualmen There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem. Anthony de Mello meanrealitythinking Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. Anthony de Mello self-loveoneselflove
