Awareness

Some people ask me for book recommendations.  There are a few that for me, are truly amazing works.

Here is one  of them – “Awareness – the perils and opportunities of reality” – Anthony de Mello

If you are having trouble in your life, if you are confused, or if you are just human, this book is just amazing.

Here are a few passages – 

Dead Ahead

The way to really live is to die.  The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave.  Imagine that you’re lying in your coffin…You’re lying flat and you’re dead.

Now look at your problems from that viewpoint.  Changes everything doesn’t it?  What a lovely meditation….

People mistakenly think that living is keeping the body alive.  

Visiting a graveyard, looking at the stones and thinking ‘he must have had all the problems I had – lots of sleepless nights’.  How crazy, we live for such a short time.

‘We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it’s night forever’ – Italian Poet

It’s only a flash and we waste it.  We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.”