Live Now, That's Reality - Anthony de Mello

A NEW mind, a new installation of software. It’s not about hell as a geographical location but rather as hell as a state of consciousness. Hell in the head caused by becoming unaware of useless and repetitive thoughts which create mental suffering. Unaware of being unaware. Deer in the headlights. Stuck in its own way. Parochialism. One trick pony. Attachments to illusion. iE, “Once I go on vacation, I’ll be happy.” The as soon as syndrome. Change the seer, not the circumstances. The only way out is in. The traffic jam isn’t your problem. The sheer bliss of the present moment is the solution. Wondering why you must wait is your problem because you keep questioning what the joy of waiting produces. A jar of muddy water will clear up as the dirty debris naturally and effortlessly sinks to the bottom. Waiting for clarity is all that is needed. It’s not toilsome, difficult or disturbing. The clarity is worth the waiting as the waiting is how inner peace and joy results from understanding temporary mud in water is not the water. How to be is vastly more crucial than what to be. The being doesn’t diminish in value by being the being regardless of what it is doing. Get the being right and the doing takes care of itself.