Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“They’ll show you pictures in an album, of places they never saw but only photographed. – I cannot warn you enough about this type of asceticism. Slow down and taste and smell and hear, and let your senses come alive.”
16 Nov“What does self change entail? – First, insight. Not effort, not cultivating habits, not having an ideal. There’s another great task, understanding.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Community is not formed by a set of slaves, by people demanding that other people make them happy. Community is formed by emperors and princesses. You’re an emperor, not a beggar; you’re a princess, not a beggar. There’s no begging bowl in a true community. There’s no clinging, no anxiety, no fear, no hangover, no possessiveness, no demands. Free people form community, not slaves.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Are you going to substitute one greed – a spiritual greed – for the other greed? Before you had a worldly ego and now you have a spiritual ago, but you’ve got an ego all the same, a refined one and a more difficult one to cope with.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“The more you resist something, the greater power you give to it. – You always empower the demons you fight. – But if you flow with the enemy, you overcome the enemy. How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it, but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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 NovAnthony 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 NovAnthony 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 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Spirituality is awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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