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De Mello's spiritual classic remains at the top of the Fount bestsellers more than five years after its original publication. One of the most gifted spiritual guides of the 20th century, de Mello uses humour, compassion and insight to help his readers into a real understanding of the importance of "awareness" in understanding ourselves and the world around us. Awareness is a comprehensive spiritual guide filled with wisdom as it tackles life's big questions--love, anger and fear, change, suffering, happiness and loss.
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'Awareness' is Anthony de Mello's best-selling guide to the spiritual life, now firmly established as a modern spiritual classic. It uses humour, compassion and insight to help readers into an understanding of the importance of 'awareness' in order to understand ourselves and the world around us.
With anecdotes and stories as well as guidelines and exercises in self-help, this book is filled with real wisdom and practical advice. It tackles the universal issues of change, happiness, suffering and loss and also gives direction on coping with love, anger and fear.
One of the most gifted spiritual teachers of the 20th century, Anthony de Mello was widely known throughout the world for his retreats, workshops and therapy courses before his untimely death in 1987. Also published by Fount is his collection of short story meditations, 'The Heart of the Enlightened'.
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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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A.De Mello takes the compications out of spirituality, looking at it all from a pshycological perspective, he says that awareness is the way to spiritual enlightenment. Continuously throughout the book he keeps repeating the words (Awareness, Awareness, Awareness) as the basic underlying concept of all religions. He can be down to earth and humorous and also serious when he needs to be. Overall this book clears up what awareness really is and what it means to be spiritually aware. A good companion for this book would be THE ONE which carries a message that brings the awareness process to life. Both are all about simplifying the enlightenment process, getting back to brass tacks and taking a good look at the mind to uncover what is really important!
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A masterpiece written by a great master and human being. One of, if not the most, important books I've ever read. I keep re-reading it and keep finding sweeter music within its pages. This book is one of the greatest gifts ever given to humanity. Shocking initially, then liberating, then even more liberating, then you become addicted to its message of awareness / love / understanding.
Read it and allow its seed to germinate in you. Keep revising and refreshing its method until you bloom into the wonder and freedom of awareness. I love the man and I love his message and I continue to be transformed by Awareness.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant, truth revealing, and simplistic,
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What Antony de Mello manages to do is change your thought processes not by promoting behavioural changes, its not about adding behaviours as most self help books promote this doesn't last because your 'acting as if' and this doesn't go to your core being. what this book does is reveal the truth about your behaviour so you let it go, its not about adding anything. I've been one of those people manipulated by feelings of guilt, self help books telling you to say No are useless, this does not reveal the truth of why you are saying Yes. However this book gives three reasons for behaviour, 1) we say yes to things we want, its selfish because we gain but its honest. 2) we say yes to help others, this is a more spiritual, but its still selfish because we get the pay off that we are doing something good, which in turn makes us feel good, but its honest. 3)We do things to avoid feeling bad! Hands up? anyone? Thats me! I do things to avoid feeling guilty, i don't even do them because i feel good about it, I do it incase something bad happens if i say no, i take responsibility for the other person, this behaviour is dishonest, im not doing it because i want too. Thank you Antony de Mello your simplicity set me free. Free of all that self consuming guilt that often religion is responsible, you made me aware of my behaviour and from that i am now able to decide whether to say no. You showed me how i will always be a puppet to society if i allow the feelings about myself depend on others and that sets me up to be manipulated by others, press a button with a compliment and i'm up, press a button with a condemnation and i'm down. Attachment to importance on how i am viewed by others leaves me on a rollercoaster of emotion, and fear.
That said there is no biological understanding here, humans do have instincts and are driven to follow them, its the way our brains are made, so this does go against them, we are driven to be amongst our own kind, not alone either, but what Antony de Mello does is offer a way of living amongst others without being a prisoner to the manipulations of society and social interaction, we are brought up to internalise an image of ourselves from the reflection of our parents, but what this book can do is break that way of behaving, for that i am truly grateful. He also has a book called The Prayer of the Frog, a brilliant little book of anedotes that make you think and are are amusing. i also read Dawkins, and understand the physiology and anatomy of the human body, John Bradshaw is pretty good with the psyche, with all this you can reach your own conclusions on how to live, which is important i think i mean its all very well being a mathematical genius but if you don't know how to live whats the point? Although buddism is not a religion but a way of living, Antony de Mello has written more religious type books which i am not a fan of, but in this one he believes it more important to have no concept of God than one that is damaging, i couldn't agree more.
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