Anthony de Mello

An inspirational course on the spiritual life focuses on the theme of awareness, discussing the issues of change, suffering, and loss, and explaining how to cope with one's emotions

Awareness

I never realised how much contact my finger makes with the world until I get a papercut.

Shuhang Cai

You’re never so full of yourself as when you’re in pain. You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you’re happy.

Piet Terheyden

Frustrated and challenged…but stuck with me and still thinking about 

Sarah Erle

Took me 10 months to finish this. At the beginning, found it difficult. Now ten months later I find it the best description available of how I’m feeling.

Anton

This book is a great source of catchy quotes for social media. But for those looking for some answers, this book is as practical as Shia LaBeouf’s “just do it” video.

In the first chapters the author claims that you are “asleep”, and that he is not going to wake you up. I can buy that, I have to “wake up” myself. Later the author sways in the direction “there is nothing to fix and we should be happy”, but if there is nothing to fix why am I reading the book and you are writing it? Okay, I may buy that too, in line with “it’s the chase that makes us unhappy”. Somewhere closer to the middle there author writes: “you are unhappy, that proves that you are asleep”. After reading that, I’ve closed the book and don’t plan to come back.

I see this book as a collection of catchy ideas from psychology (separation of “I” and “me”), spirituality, and philosophy, with all the practical advices left out.

Matthew Rasnake

This book came highly recommended by Tim Ferris and a podcast guest, if I remember correctly, but a few chapters in it was just not resonating with me at all, and I've abandoned it. To me it felt outdated, out-of-touch, and cynical. Perhaps I've just read too much other, similar, but better stuff. Perhaps I'm the cynical one. Either way, it didn't grab me, it didn't interest me, and it's not going to waste any more of my time.

Bailey Jennings

Brock

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Tuago

Gia Palamos

Anthony

Róbert Istók

Keven Wang

Oz Lubling

Ketan Nayak

Ethan Hussong

Sebastien

Burak Kaan Özbek

Alper Kanyilmaz

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.

Awareness

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