Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“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 Nov“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”
“The trouble with people is that they are busy fixing things they don’t even understand. We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood. If you understood them, they’d change.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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