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“When you attain, when you are aware, increasingly you will not be bothered about labels like ‘awake’ or ‘asleep.’ One of my difficulties here is to arrouse your curiousity, but not your spiritual greed.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

I believe Terri calls this “CCL: Couldn’t Care Less”

It sounds strange in a culture where we’ve been trained to achieve goals, to get somewhere, but in fact, there’s no where to go because you’re there already. The Japanese have a nice way of putting it: ‘The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.” ‘

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

Continued from P. 146 “The moment you make a goal out of it and attempt to get it, you’re seeking ego glorification, ego promotion. You want the good feeling that you’ve made it.

“You will never understand yourself if you seek to change yourself. The harder you try to change yourself, the worse it gets. You are called upon to be aware.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“Spirituality is awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“It’s a great thing to have suffered. Only then can you get sick of it. You can make use of suffering to end suffering.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any person or thing.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“An attachment detroys your capacity to love. What is love? Love is sensitivity, love is consciousness.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“The only way to change is by changing your understanding.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”

“The world, power, prestige, winning, success, honor, etc., are nonexistent things. You gain the world but you lose your soul. – There’s nothing there.”

16 Nov

Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”