For years, this book Awareness: the Perils and Opportunities of Reality kept getting recommended to me. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict X Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality. Uzevši u obzir koliko sam si citata/misli/ideja označila u knjizi koja ne sadrži niti 200 stranica, rekla bih da u njoj ima puno toga značajnoga i vrijednog za obratiti pažnju. I think that each person will find at least one grain of truth or a quote that speaks to themselves while reading this. When you’re open to learning new things, stop identifying with your ego, and focus on being content with what you have you’re a long way into becoming aware and at ease with yourself and the world around you.

Your society is not going to be happy to hear this, because you become terrifying when you open your eyes and understand this.A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within. Our suffering comes from the strife we feel when reality does not conform to our false understanding of how the world should be. All I can say to those who might read this is that you are so lucky this book has shown up on your path. It’s refreshing that he steers clear of politics or personal struggles and moves to the struggles that we must all go through.

He was a popular leader of retreats and conferences, where he communicated his ideas to people through the spoken word, not the written word. The “me” can be in pain, can be confused, can be divided, can be feeling elation, but each is transient and the forever “I” knows that all of it is the experience of being alive. They have duty without fire, maintaining the symbols without ever discovering the thing the symbols were meant to lead them to. De Mello argues in the book that we have to truly understand everything that’s happening within us and outside of who we are. To wake up, the one thing you need the most is not energy, or strength, or youthfulness, or even great intelligence.Some other reviews have noted that listening to the author lecture was distracting but I think improved the experience. After reading this book, I’ve come to realize that not being able to admit that you are wrong is a sign that your ego is running the show. In the beginning giving up the drug can be tough, unless you have a very keen understanding or unless you have suffered enough. In fact, Thomas Aquinas (he’s not only a theologian but also a great philosopher) says repeatedly, ‘All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. We are providing our personal opinion and it should not be taken as legal, financial, or tax advice.

Anthony explains spiritual concepts that seem confusing when anyone else teaches them and makes them understandable and actionable.Kiedy twoje złudzenia zderzają się z rzeczywistością, kiedy fałsz zderza się z prawdą, wówczas pojawia się cierpienie. No judgment, no commentary, no attitude: one simply observes, one studies, one watches, without the desire to change what is. The brain is an expert illusionist, constantly speaking, constantly fantasizing (at least mine, who’s with me? For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Once you get convinced of that—and it gets into our subconscious, it gets stamped into the roots of our being—you are finished.