Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
Anthony de Mello
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Enlightenment
Spirituality
Aware
Awareness
Control
Spiritual
More quotes by Anthony de Mello
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
Anthony de Mello
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Anthony de Mello
What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello
What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
Anthony de Mello
The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
Anthony de Mello
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
Anthony de Mello
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
Anthony de Mello
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Anthony de Mello
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
Anthony de Mello
The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
Anthony de Mello
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
Anthony de Mello
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
Anthony de Mello
I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.
Anthony de Mello
Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
Anthony de Mello
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
Anthony de Mello
A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
Anthony de Mello
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
Anthony de Mello
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
Problems exist only in the human mind.
Anthony de Mello
