Anthony de Mello on waking up in “Awareness”
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“The first reaction is fear. It’s not that we fear the unknown. – What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.”
1 Nov“I am delighted!’ You are certainly not delighted. Delight may be in you right now, but wait around, it will change; it won’t last; it never lasts; it keeps changing; it’s always changing. Clouds come and go: some of them are black and some are white, some of them are large, others small. If we want to follow the same analogy, you would be the sky, observing the clouds. You are a passive, detached observer. – Watch! Observe!”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“The trouble with people is that they are busy fixing things they don’t even understand. We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood. If you understood them, they’d change.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you’re good. Or as the great Sufi would say, ‘A saint is one until he or she knows it.”
1 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“If you want anything too badly, you’re in big trouble. – You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don’t you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be hoping. But then you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don’t know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn’t the future just another trap?”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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