Spirituality means waking up.
Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep.
They're born asleep, they live asleep,
they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep,
they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never understand the loveliness
and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
Eckhart Tolle relates a story about spiritual teacher, Krishnamurti, who travelled for 50 years, lecturing and speaking about something that cannot be conveyed by words. At one talk late in his life, he stopped and just said, "Do you want to know my secret?" The audience was on the edge of their seats, having followed him for decades and not "gotten it". What he said was: "This is my secret: I don't mind what happens."
This is key in detachment…not minding what happens, not being affected by what happens, what someone says, what someone thinks…even if it’s someone you love very much…being able to calmly respond, “Is that so?” instead of drowning in the emotion that results from being totally identified with defending ourselves, being right, being trusted, even with being loved. It’s obvious that most of the time we DO mind what happens...very much! Of course we do..it’s a normal, human reaction…but we’re being called into a deeper place, and because we’re being called we can also count on the Spirit to provide us with the grace we need to move to that deeper level. Live into this grace. We can’t do it on our own, but we can practice detachment while waiting for the grace to live it.
Is there anything I can do to make myself Enlightened?
As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual excercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Then of what use are the spiritual excercises you prescribe?
To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.
Take a deep breath and look inward..say as little as possible. Remember, love calls us to a deeper place. Deep calls unto deep. These are the fruits of prayerful consent. We are on the path…awaken, beloved ones.
Quotes from One Minute Wisdom
by Anthony De Mello
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