We Want Relief. Cure Is Painful — by Anthony de Mello

[Welles]

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. You know all mystics -- Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion -- are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

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https://archive.org/details/Awareness-AnthonyDeMello

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We Want Relief. Cure Is Painful — by Anthony de Mello

http://www.awakin.org/read/audio.php?op=play&tid=2302

[Sandy]

I wasn't expecting that. Now you do realize that every morning upon awakening and I begin the "grumble" I will think of this little piece of work?
Thanks Welles...I needed that!
xxSandy

[happyrain]

i enjoyed the bit about the headmaster.

i'd rather understanding if i am to draw from the past, not to have these broken toys(once 'good' status, relationship and material wealth)

i've learned recently the past and thoughts of the future have pulled me away from the glory of god.

idea's of who i ought to be taken from the past or from experiences i would think undesirable which were the result from acting off the very same idea's and thought process now shaping this unknown future, all a smoke screen to what is right in front of me

let it be painful, and let us bud roses and be fragrant with His presence