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To ask to be especial to someone means essentially to be bound to the task of making yourself pleasing to this person. And therefore to lose your freedom.
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Awareness
Digging deep w/ the help of Claude into “Awareness” by Anthony de Mello (all highlights are from my conversations)
Max Bernstein • 5 cards
All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
One of these great saints, Ramana Maharshi, used to ask, “Who am I?” We see now that this is a very deep question. Ask it ceaselessly, constantly. Ask it and you will notice that you are the answer. There is no intellectual answer—you are the answer. Be the answer, and everything will change.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
There is another way besides laborious self-pushing on the one hand and stagnant acceptance on the other. It is the way of self-understanding. This is far from easy because to understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else.
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness. What they trained us to do in that course was to become participant observers. To put it somewhat graphically, I’d be talking to you and at the same time I’d be out there watching you and watching me. When I’m listening to you, it’s infinitely more important for me to listen to me than to listen to you.
... See moreJ. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
The important thing is to drop the labels. As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.” Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth. Truth isn’t something you search for. If you stop being opinionated, you would know. Something similar happens here. If you drop your labels, you would know. What do I mean by labels?
... See moreJ. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Effort does not lead to growth; effort, whatever the form it may take, whether it be willpower or habit or a technique or a spiritual exercise, does not lead to change. At best it leads to repression and a covering over of the root disease.