Awareness (Anthony De Mello, 1990)

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Review: Written by religious leader with great thoughts and examples, guiding but not forcing us to take the right path through awareness. Rated: 9.5/10

  • An eagle grew up with the chickens and one day it saw a majestic eagle soaring above the sky wondering what that is, the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.
  • Many people want to get out of kindergarten but all they want is for you to mend their broken toys. Give me back my wife, job, money, reputation and success.
  • When you fight something, you empower it. Don't renounce it, see through it.
  • Worse kind of charity is to do something so you won't get a bad feeling, you don't want people to think of you as bad people.
  • Transferring the bomb from your lap to under the seat is simply transferring problems and not solving them.
  • 3 most difficult thing: returning love for hate, including the excluded, admitting that you are wrong. 
  • 2 things in the world: love and fear; fear causes you to be angry.
  • We often obsess over religion itself and forget the value behind it.
  • 4 steps to wisdom: get in touch with negative feelings you are not aware of > understand the feeling in you and stop trying to change reality > never identify with that feeling (not the 'I') > how do you change things and change yourself?
  • Schools with only pass and fail encourage students to help one another rather than adjusting the microscope of the fellow student.
  • Ultimate form of knowing God is like blind man discussing colour.
  • You don't realise you have a tooth until you get a toothache, take care of yourself before things happen.
  • If you don't see things through your concept you will never get bored.
  • Asceticism - severe self-discipline and avoiding all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
  • It is not living life when a car breaks down and you push it all the way to your destination, call the mechanic.


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