Anthony de Mello Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  "Awareness: Conversations with the Masters".

• Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Pain, Eye

• Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Light, Darkness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.7, Image

• A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Mirrors, Envelopes

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.113, Image

• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Thinking, Sight

• 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.

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  Real, Ego, Steps

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.145, Image

• Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Feelings, Negative

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.51, Image

• What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, News, Masters

• Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Pain, Stupid, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

• Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Loneliness, Learning, Knowledge

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.55, Image

• As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Looks, World

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.148, Image

• Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Feelings, Goes On

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

• This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.

  Anthony de Mello

  Lying, Believe, Mean

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.3, Image

• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Boss

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

• The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"

  Anthony de Mello

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 131, 1992.

• 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

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

• A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

  Anthony de Mello

  Religious, Taken, Eye

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 134), 1992.

• Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Frozen, Flow

• 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

  Reality, Ideas, People

• Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality

  "Awakening : Conversations with the Masters". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 221), 2003.

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