Anthony de Mello in “Awareness” about identifying “I” with “me” on P. 59.
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“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 Nov“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.”
On understanding who “I” is: “You’ll never be the same again, never. Nothing will ever be able to touch you and no one will ever be able to hurt you again. You will fear no one and you will fear nothing. – You fear no one because you’re perfectly content to be nobody.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“When your illusions drop, you’re in touch with reality at last, and believe me, you will never again be lonely. – Lonliness is cured by contact with reality.”
11 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“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 NovAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“Suffering exists in “me”, so when you identify “I” with “me,” suffering begins.”
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.
“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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