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Anthony De Mello Essays - 4
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| LOSING THE RAT RACE 31
Lets get back to that marvelous sentence in the gospel about losing oneself in order to find oneself. One finds it in most religious literature and in all religious and spiritual and mystical literature. How does one lose oneself? Did you ever try to lose something? That's right, the harder you try, the harder it gets. It's when you're not trying that you lose things. You lose something when you're not aware. Well, how does one die to oneself? We're talking about death now, we're not talking about suicide. We're not told to kill the self, but to die. Causing pain to the self, causing suffering to the self would be self-defeating. It would be counterproductive. You're never so full of yourself as when you're in pain.
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Anthony De Mello Essays -3
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| AWARENESS AND CONTACT WITH REALITY 21
To watch everything inside of you and outside, and when there is something happening to you, to see it as if it were happening to someone else, with no comment, no judgment, no attitude, no interference, no attempt to change, only to understand. As you do this, you'll begin to realize that increasingly you are disidentifying from "me". |
Anthony De Mello Essays-2
On Waking UP
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.
Anthony De Mello - Essays - 1
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.
De Mello - Meditations
Call to Love - Meditations by Anthony de Mello SJ
Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is
coming at an hour you do not expect. (Mt. 24:44)
Sooner or later there arises in every human heart the desire
for holiness, spirituality, God, call it what you will.
One hears mystics speak of a divinity all around them that
is within our grasp, that would make our lives meaningful and beautiful and
rich, if we could only discover it.
De Mello - Stories
De Mello Stories
Tony de Mello
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Master in these tales is not a single person. He is a Hindu Guru, a Zen Roshi,
a Taoist Sage, a Jewish Rabbi, a Christian Monk, a Sufi Mystic. He is Lao Tzu
and Socrates. Buddha and Jesus, Zarathustra and Mohammed. His teaching is
found in the 7th century B.C. and the 20th century A.D. His wisdom belongs to
East and West alike. Do his historical antecedents really matter? History,
after all, is the record of appearances, not Reality; of doctrines, not of
Silence.
DeMello Tapes - Wakeup! (Pray) Part One
Anthony De Mello Quotes
“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
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