Anthony de Mello in “Awareness” on waking up.
Archive | November, 2014
“Who’s living in you? – It’s going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call “I” is simply a conglomoration of your past experiences, of your conditioning and programming. – When you are beginning to awaken, you experience a great deal of pain. It’s painful to see your illusions being shattered.”
11 Nov“The great master’s tell us that the most important question in the world is: “Who am I?” Or rather: “What is I?” What is this thing I call “I”? What is this thing I call self?
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Do you know what eternal life is? – Eternal means timless – no time.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“How many people do you know who are unaffected by praise or blame? – If you find me charming, it means that right now you are in a good mood, nothing more. It also means that I fit your shopping list. – If you ever let yourself feel good when people tell you that you’re O.K., then you are preparing yourself to feel bad when they tell you you’re not good. As long as you live to fill other people’s expectations, you’d better watch… whether you live up to every damned expectation of theirs. You’re not O.K. and you’re not not O.K., you’re you.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“When I say disciplined, I’m not talking about effort. – Look at the river as it moves to the sea. It creates its own banks that contain it. When there’s something within you that moves in the right direction, it creates its own discipline.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“If you desire to change what is into what you think should be, you no longer understand”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself?”
2 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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 NovAnthony de Mello on waking up in “Awareness”
“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”
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