I thought this was the best "book" I have read. But, then, I found out that Anthony De Mello actually never wrote it! Instead, he gave a long seminar and spoke these words, tales, ages of wisdom. He was about 55 (I am about 40), and he died soon afterwards.
If you don't believe, which is good :-), check out the audio recordings at:
http://awareness.tk/
It is a one-man show with a lot of laughter in the background.
Tony asks that you do NOT believe what he says. Instead, be like the goldsmith and treat his words like the goldsmith would: rub, scrape, cut and melt. My challenge to you is to also do the same to your own responses (thoughts, feelings) to his thoughts/ideas. Rub your own responses, thoughts, beliefs; scrape, cut and melt them before you believe them.
Don't be lost in them though. Tony would have liked you to taste life you have HERE and NOW, and not philosophize to endless depths over his message.
Remember the tale he tells from Japan: There was a man running away from a tiger. He came to a precipice, and fell. Fortunately, there was a bush he could hold on to. Up, there is tiger, down, his fall to death. At that point, he notices the bush, a berry bush. With his left hand, he plucks up a berry and tastes it. And it tastes so sweet...
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