Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello (1990) Paperback

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

What’s the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

If you find me charming, it means that right now you’re in a good mood, nothing more.

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.

The root of evil is within you. As you begin to understand this, you stop making demands on yourself, you stop having expectations of yourself, you stop pushing yourself and you understand. Nourish yourself on wholesome food, good wholesome food. I’m not talking about actual food, I’m talking about sunsets, about nature, about a good movie, about a... See more

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.