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from The Way to Love by Anthony DeMello . . . It is not what you do that brings you the holiness that makes you whole. Holiness is not a prize that you can win or a change you can acquire by practicing some technique or a commodity that you can purchase from someone selling it. What matters is not what you do, but what you are and what you become. Holiness comes from within;…
From Awareness by Anthony DeMello . . . The great Scottish educator, A. S. Neill (1883-1973), founded an experimental school called Summerhill which, a hundred years later, is still thriving. Summerhill is an independent British boarding school run as a democratic community based on the principle that school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. Here is a powerful quote from A.S. Neill: “Every child has a god in him or…
From Awareness by Anthony DeMello . . . People keep bumping into life again and again. They still go on sleepwalking. They don’t wake up. Tragically, it doesn’t occurs to them that there may be another way. It doesn’t yet occur to them that there may be a better way. Even if you haven’t been bumped sufficiently by life, even if you haven’t suffered enough, still there is another way to enlightenment for you: It’s…
from Awareness by Anthony De Mello . . . Be aware of your presence wherever you are at the moment. Say to yourself, “I am in this room, or I am in this car, or on this train … wherever you are.” Look as if you were outside yourself looking at yourself. Notice a slightly different feeling than if you were focusing on a particular object in the space you now occupy. Ask, “Who is…
from The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello . . . Observe the wisdom that operates in doves and in flowers and in bees and trees — that is there everywhere in the whole of Nature. This kind of Nature-wisdom was once in us, which we are only now beginning to rediscover in so- called primitive peoples who, like the dove, are so simple and wise and balanced, moving through life with trust and…
from The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello . . . Look at the stress, at the anxiety and depression, at the conflict in the hearts of people, inner conflict, outer conflict. Suppose somebody gave you a way of getting rid of all of that? Suppose somebody gave you a way to stop that tremendous drainage of energy, of health, of emotion that comes from these conflicts and confusion. Who wouldn’t want that? There…
