Monday, February 28, 2011

Page 13, Anthony De Mello's, The Way of Love

Chapter Title: The Extra Mile

Bible quote: " If anyone would sue you to take your coat, let him have your cloak as well,
and if anyone forces you to go a mile, go with him two miles."

He says, on the little page:

"If you take a look at the way you have been
put together
and the way you function,
you will find that inside your
head
there is a whole
program,
a set of demands
about
how the world should be,
how you should be,
and what you should want.

Who is responsible for this programming?
Not you.
It isn't really you who decided even
such basics
as
your wants
and desires
and so-called needs;
your values,
your tastes,
your attitudes.

It...."

That's all.
Little pages.

What's he going to say in the rest of the chapter.

My guess:
to be ourselves,
to really love,
we have to discover our programming
and stop
believing it.

Or, as Katie would say:
Who would we be
without our story?

Here's the book from Amazon,
though if we can figure how to order from Powell's so much the better:

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