Awareness

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But it’s been immensely productive for my thinking, especially about concepts like spirituality, identity, and self-awareness.

Anthony was in love with life and humanity and, provided you have an open mind, you will be also when you finish reading this book. You weren’t thinking about what the future held, how you would attain that goal, or how you would be able to pay your bills. They have duty without fire, maintaining the symbols without ever discovering the thing the symbols were meant to lead them to. This audio book is a recording of the author giving a series of lectures on awareness so you can hear the reaction of the audience (mostly laughter) and it feels more authentic than some audiobooks of the same topics.Anthony de Mello: “If you really enjoy life and the simple pleasures of the senses, you’d be amazed. They regretted not having lived life fully, that they worked too much, that they wondered what could have been had they chased their dreams, that they should’ve spent more time with their loved ones. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. However, my problem with this book is that the author’s philosophy and beliefs relies on the post modernist view that truth does not exist. A jeśli jest trudne, to jedynie z powodu waszych złudzeń, waszych ambicji, waszej chciwości i nienasycenia”.

I now realize that admitting you’re wrong is a sign of strength and helps relieve all the stress and tension of trying to always be ‘right. Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality.Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing is demanding other people contribute to your happiness. There was a time in my life where I wanted to wake each day with a favorite quote – I chose 52 different quotes (one for each randomly drawn card from a deck) from 5-6 books, with about 10 of the quotes from this one. The book itself is a series of short reflections which were originally talks he gave, and only after, transcribed into text. Look closely in my eyes, though, because before you have the chance to ask me what that key is, and why I'm not explaining it properly to you, I'm going to slam a little cute story in your face that is going to distract you from the fact that I have actually just told you nothing at all”. To me, the more important effect of this book is to help me think and feel more expansively and with more genuine curiosity about things like love, truth, belonging, self-awareness, and the like.

I'm an ex-marketing executive turned self-education entrepreneur after an existential crisis in 2015.All I can say to those who might read this is that you are so lucky this book has shown up on your path. One sign that you’re awakened is that you don’t give a damn about what’s going to happen in the next life. When a theology teacher introduced me to Anthony De Mello, I initially found him too demanding and off-putting. You frequently interpret everything that’s being said in terms of your hypnotic state or your conditioning or your programming.

These constructs include the ideas that we must succeed financially, that we must find another person to give us love, that illness and death are personal affronts, that we must adhere to this or that ideal, that our lives must go a certain way. If you want to finish your day with a smile on your face, no matter the day,listen at the end of your day a chapter from Awareness . But, I’m not a professor, philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, scientist, mystic, or guru. Awareness” is my all-time favourite book on ‘applied spirituality’ – simple yet profound – and everything else he said is inspirational if occasionally confronting.That gives the hope to people who still believe that there is much more to life than the wretched mechanical life they are clinging on to. The scriptures are always hinting of that, but you’ll never understand a word of what the scriptures are saying until you wake up. If all you experience is your concept, you’re not experiencing reality, because reality is concrete.