Fw: 21 - AWARENESS AND CONTACT WITH REALITY

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21 - AWARENESS AND CONTACT WITH REALITY

 

 

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. As you do this, you'll begin to realize that

increasingly you are disidentifying from "me." St. Teresa of Avila says

that toward the end of her life God gave her an extraordinary grace. She

doesn't use this modern expression, of course, but what it really boils

down to is disidentifying from her self. If someone else has cancer and I

don't know the person, I'm not all that affected. If I had love and

sensitivity, maybe I'd help, but I'm not emotionally affected. If YOU have

an examination to take, I'm not all that affected. I can be quite

philosophical about it and say, "Well, the more you worry about it, the

worse it'll get. Why not just take a good break instead of studying?" But

when it's my turn to have an examination, well, that's something else,

isn't it? The reason is that I've identified with "me"-with my family, my

country, my possessions, my body, me. How would it be if God gave me grace

not to call these things mine? I'd be detached; I'd be

disidentified. That's what it means to lose the self, to deny the self, to

die to self.

 

 

Anthony de Mello, SJ

The Master was asked by what criterion he selected his disciples.

 

He said, "I act in a submissive and humble manner. Those who become

haughty in response to my humility I immediately reject. Those who revere

me because of my humble demeanor I reject with equal speed."

 

Anthony de Mello, SJ

 

 

MORSEL: I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty

feet. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)