Anthony de Mello Quotes about Pain

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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony de Mello

Life, Pain, Growth

Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, Image

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

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