Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“The world, power, prestige, winning, success, honor, etc., are nonexistent things. You gain the world but you lose your soul. – There’s nothing there.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Wakefulness, hapiness – call it what you wish – is the state of nondelusion, where you see things not as you are but as they are, insofar as this is possible for human beings.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“You’re not a dancer at all. You are being danced. – You thought you were at the center, now you experience yourselfas satellite. You thought you were the dancer; you now experience yourself as the dance.”
16 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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”
“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.
“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 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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