The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new

“So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness 

“The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness 

“How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears. How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“To know reality you have to know beyond knowing.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

“Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

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