Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“You don’t even need to be in love. Who told you you do? What you need is to be free. What you need is to love. That’s it; that’s your nature. But what you’re really telling me is that you want to be desired. You want to be applauded, to be attractive, to have all the little monkeys runnings after you.”
16 Nov“Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s a falsehood somwhere, just as a physical pain is given to you so that you will understand that there is a disease or illness somewhere.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Japanese Zen master’s say, ‘Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.’ – Truth isn’t somthing you search for. If you stopped being opinionated, you would know.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you’re not aware of.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“There’s only one evil in the world, fear. There’s only one good in the world, love. – Think of the last time you were angry and search for the fear behind it.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“There’s only one reason why you’re not experiening bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have. – Right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.’ But there’s a difference: I don’t identify with it anymore. Do you know what a big difference that is?”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness” about identifying “I” with “me” on P. 59.
“Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You wouldn’t be driving with your brakes on. That’s what would happen.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
More in a fable on P.58 “There’s a lovely saying of Tranxu, a great Chinese sage, that I took the trouble to learn by heart. It goes: ‘When the archer shoots for no particular prize, he has all his skills; when he shoots to win a brass buckle, he is already nervous; when he shoots for a gold prize, he goes blind, sees two targets and is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, but the prize divides him. He cares! He things more of winning than of shooting, and the need to win drains him of power.”
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