Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well by Anthony De Mello

Author:Anthony De Mello [Mello, Anthony de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond Words
Published: 2021-04-13T05:00:00+00:00

THE LITMUS TEST

As you use the sword of awareness to move from attachment into love, there is one thing you must keep in mind: Don’t be harsh or impatient or hate yourself. How can love grow out of such attitudes? Instead, hold on to the compassion and the matter-of-factness with which the surgeon plies his knife. Then you may find yourself in the marvelous condition of loving the object of your attachment and enjoying it even more than before, yet simultaneously enjoying every other thing and every other person just as much. That is the litmus test for finding out if what you have is love.

Far from becoming indifferent, you now enjoy everything and everyone just as much as you did the object of your attachment, only now, there are no more thrills and therefore no more suffering and suspense. In fact, you could be said to be enjoying everything and enjoying nothing. Because you have made the great discovery that what you are enjoying on the occasion of each thing and person is something within yourself. The orchestra is within you, and you carry it with you wherever you go. The things and people outside you merely determine what particular melody the orchestra will play. And when there is no one or nothing that has your attention, the orchestra will play a music of its own; it needs no outside stimulation. You now carry in your heart a happiness that nothing outside of you can put there, and nothing can take away.

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