Pamela

“When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello