Awareness

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First, can you pick up the desire under that suffering, that there’s something you desire very keenly or else you wouldn’t be suffering. And in his famous commentary on Boethius’ De Sancta Trinitate he says there are three ways of knowing God: (1) in the creation, (2) in God’s actions through history, and (3) in the highest form of the knowledge of God—to know God tamquam ignotum (to know God as the unknown). Some say that there are only two things in the world: God and fear; love and fear are the only two things.

If people devoted to awareness the time and energy they currently devote to worship, they and the world would be much better off. Sure, attaining your goals and dreams bring happiness, but being content with the journey of getting there is far more rewarding. To me, the more important effect of this book is to help me think and feel more expansively and with more genuine curiosity about things like love, truth, belonging, self-awareness, and the like.

That is what I meant earlier when I said to you, ‘If you’re suffering, you’re asleep’… suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. It is through striving for the next thing or avoiding to deal with matters you run away from that bring up suffering. Don’t take it personally, they just aren’t aware or just don’t want to admit that they are causing their own suffering. He notes that there are only two paths for those whose world-view is completely shattered: they become insane, or they become mystics. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

If there was anyone who could be considered the perfect spiritual teacher, Anthony DeMello would be it. I’ll share a few excerpts from the book that resonated with me and finish out with a handful of shifts in life and perspective that has resulted after reading this book 2-3 times. He brings you a lot to chew on and does not encourage you to accept everything he says without thinking over it first.

To watch everything inside of you and outside, and when there is something happening to you, to see it as if it were happening to someone else, with no comment, no judgment, no attitude, no interference, no attempt to change, only to understand. Awareness” is my all-time favourite book on ‘applied spirituality’ – simple yet profound – and everything else he said is inspirational if occasionally confronting.

Effortless contentment, not thrill-seeking happiness, to be in touch with nature, to be immersed in work that you love, or to enjoy being in someone else’s company.Ignorance and fear, ignorance caused by fear, that’s where all the evil comes from, that’s where your violence comes from. As a matter of fact, you will have to let them take care of themselves because you’ll be too preoccupied with getting in touch with reality. Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing is demanding other people contribute to your happiness.