Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you’re living in an illusion. There’s something seriously wrong with you. – Something has to change. – The world is alright. The one who has to change is you.”
11 Nov“Suffering exists in “me”, so when you identify “I” with “me,” suffering begins.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“We begin first with things, with an awareness of things; then we move on to an awareness of thoughts (that’s the me); and finally we get to an awareness of the thinker. Things, thoughts, thinker. What we’re really searching for is the thinker. Can the thinker know himself? Can I know what “I” is? Some of these mystics reply, “Can the knife cut itself? Can the tooth bite itself?…Can the “I” know itself?”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness” on waking up.
“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”
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