Anthony DeMello

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Anthony DeMello
Wake Up Spirituality
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How To Be Real
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• What is the significance of the story of the man
  hanging off the cliff and eating the berry?
• How can you live life one moment at a time while
  beginning with the end in mind?
• What is the significance of the story about the
  diamonds?
• Life is a banquet but most people are starving.
  What does this mean to you?
• What is the significance of the story of the man
  and the mendicant?
• I dont want this diamond. Could you give me
  the riches that make it possible for you to give
  this thing away?
• Life is something that happens to us while were
  busy at something else You have 3 ½ months
  left at Cathedral. In what way (s) do you need
  to un-busy yourself and focus on life?

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• The tragedy is not in how much we suffer, but
  in how much we miss. What does this mean to
  you?
• Human beings are born asleep, live asleep and
  die asleep. How do we wake up?
• DeMello says were all given a drug as a child.
  What is the drug DeMello is talking about?
• What happens once you take the drug?
• What do you lose the ability to do when under the
  affects of the drug? What drug are you under
  the affects of? What have you lost the ability
  to do because of it?
• In what ways do you respond as a robot?

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• What does DeMello mean when he says if you drop
  the drug everything will be the same, but, You
  will have dropped out. You will be in the world
  but not of the world.
• How does this idea parallel living a life of
  faith?
• What is the difference between loneliness and
  aloneness?
• Think of someone whose approval you think you
  need. In what way have you lost your freedom
  because of it?
• Think of someone you think is necessary to ease
  the pain of your loneliness. In what way have
  you lost your freedom because of it?

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• What are the two kinds of desire DeMello talks
  about? What is the significance of this?
• As long as I need you, I cannot love you. What
  do you think DeMello means by this? Do you agree
  or disagree? Why?
• How does DeMello define spirituality? What role
  does religion play?
• How often are you attune to what others think,
  feel and will say about you?
• What do we need to discover in order to be
  transformed?