Awareness

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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”. When you go through life with preferences but don’t let your happiness depend on any one of them, then you’re awake.

Ja należę do tej nieoświeconej, nieuświadomionej i wg autora raczej nie dość inteligentnej (żeby nie powiedzieć, że tępej) części społeczeństwa. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. We are providing our personal opinion and it should not be taken as legal, financial, or tax advice.If you ask a person if they could give up their established way of life right now and accept that the suit of armor known as your body is temporary, could most do it? If you’re interested in learning more about Stoic philosophy, I highly recommend Ryan Holiday’s new book: ‘ Lives of the Stoics’. You know, all mystics—Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion—are unanimous on one thing: Like a good homily, you get a soundbite to catch your attention, a couple of Buddhist parables to twist your assumptions a little and then a drumbeat of his different themes which stretch through the book. It woke me up from ‘existing’ as a human to ‘living’ a life that I am excited, proud, and most of all, grateful to have.

There’s the story of the disciple who went to the master and said, “Could you give me a word of wisdom? In addition, though, I have to say that, like a dictionary, it offers very little in the way of plot. So why waste this flash in time with being worried, afraid, or running after the wrong goals and ideals we believe are true.One sign that you’re awakened is that you don’t give a damn about what’s going to happen in the next life. The reason why it took a while for me to finish this book is that it has so many passages that I would prefer to give them time to sink in before moving forward. You could be a plumber or a lawyer or a businessman or a priest, but that does not affect the essential ‘I’. What follows are a handful of my favorite quotes and passages from the book along with some brief reflections of my own. They are missing the smorgasbord because they are obsessed with success and failure, poverty and riches, honor or disgrace.

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De Mello includes a multitude of engaging short stories, analogies, and anecdotes throughout the book to illustrate his key points. Spirituality means waking up" is the way he begins Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality. Please note that these are my subjective opinions and you might not agree with them but for me, it’s what I believe to be true…. We never feel grief when we lose something that we have allowed to be free, that we have never attempted to possess. Included within: insights from Christian mystics, Islamic sayings, Buddhist parables, and much more.But I wonder how much of that is because most of the insight-based approaches I’ve come across are not very rigorous? Definitivno mi je potrebno buđenje (pomoć, promjena, usmjeravanje, olakšavanje) pa sam uhvatila ovu knjižicu u kojoj sam se nadala nešto pronaći i pomoći si. You have somehow said to yourself, ‘The well-being of ‘I,’ almost the existence of ‘I,’ is tied up with this desire. He was a popular leader of retreats and conferences, where he communicated his ideas to people through the spoken word, not the written word.