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by Anthony De Mello (Author) "Spirituality means waking up ..." (more)
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Using humor, compassion, and insight, the beloved and best-selling Anthony de Mello teaches us to welcome the challenge of knowing ourselves and living the "aware" life.


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"This is your wake-up call! You may not have even realized you were sleepwalking. Most of us are most of the time. Awareness is an eye-opener. It's Anthony de Mello telling you gently but firmly, "It's time to get up now".--Charles Osgood of The Osgood File.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars easy to understand and inspiring, Oct 10 2009
By James Lawrence - See all my reviews
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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. 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 fully aware. A good companion for this book would be Finding Reality , which carries a similar but very direct message. Both are all about simplifying the enlightenment process, getting back to brass tacks and taking a look at what is really important!
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5.0 out of 5 stars AWAKE! You are not meant to be a brain in a jar!, Jan 12 2004
By Paul Stilwell (British Columbia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This book will throw a monkey wrench into the gears of your mechanical modern mind. Not just the mechanical mind of the secular consumer, but more so for the religious, who just may be "worshipping a mental idol." This book is about waking up existentially. Quit adopting the externals of others, whether saints or not, quit absorbing things to your false self, quit personalizing everything, quit identifying with what makes you both seemingly happy and miserable; and what is so great is that you are not to actively "quit" these things. Instead, look. Exist. Listen. Awareness, awareness, awareness. As in the words of that unknown author of "The Cloud of Unknowing": instead of realizing "what you are", realize "that you are".

The awareness spoken of in this book is not self-consciousness, not a straining of the will or mind; in fact, the awareness in this book implies a kind of good unawareness.

Some other reviewer on this page says this book is "watered-down yogiism". He goes on to say basically, in more or less words, that this book is Godless and is psuedo-eastern escapist pacisfist quietistic navel-gazing crap. Now, it MUST be noted, this book is for people who are capable of understanding that De Mello is not here teaching a doctrine of Salvation, so to speak. He is not saying, "okay, here is how you save yourself..." No. It is more like he is saying, "okay, here is how to be yourself..." He is not saying that awareness is salvation. No. Awareness is simply awareness. Christ was aware of all that was going on around Him. This came with being fully human. Christ wants us to be fully human and to love Him as humans, not as rigid "religious" mercenaries, mistaking our discursive thoughts and mental images for Christ Himself. Our discursive thoughts and mental images are good, but reality keeps on going, not mechanically, but in a kind of always beginning, calling us to a kind of daily death, which is actually creation groaning in its birth pangs.

This book teaches what Christ taught when He spoke about the lilies of the field. I don't think we really take that teaching seriously. It is not about irresponsibility. It is not about feel-goodism, (which, I might add, is one of the things that De Mello nicely destroys in this book, leaving for the reader throughout the reading, many instances where you are neither ecstatically crushed under condemning news about yourself, nor led away on some discursive and clever "insight", flattering you away to neverland, but left plainly and wordlessly in front of yourself with your bubble burst, yet still pointing to some ground of your being that is undeniable, so that you don't get to indulge in the pleasure of crawling under a rock to sleep in self-pity.)

I recommend this book to those who have not only wept for their sins and errors, (by this I mean real error and sin, not social faults) but who have also realized a little bit that there is the danger of a certain pride and egoism that comes with weeping over them too much or in the wrong way. WAKE UP!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top list, Feb 5 2004
By Kristin (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This book is on my top 5 list of all time. It was given to me at I time when I was ready to hear what it had to say, and I re-read it whenever I have the chance. Though I was unclear about a few parts, I found it helpful to keep reading, as he returns to themes later on, and this reinforces what he is saying. Of all the self-help material out there, I find this to be the clearest, most succinct, most honest, and most direct. If you want to move through painful parts of your life or begin appreciating things -- I wholeheartedly recommend this!
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