Healing Challenge

*note* nice wisdom from Anthony de Mello..and my favorite american mystic,Vernon Howard
The link above is a pdf. file
-added by danny-
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Healing Challenge
by Anthony de Mello
“Calamities can bring growth and Enlightenment,”
said the Master. And he explained it thus:
“Each day a bird would shelter in the withered
branches of a tree that stood in the middle of a vast
deserted plain. One day a whirlwind uprooted the
tree, forcing the poor bird to fly a hundred miles in
search of shelter — till it finally came to a forest of
fruit-laden trees.”And he concluded: “If the withered
tree had survived, nothing would have induced the
bird to give up its security and fly.”
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Always remember that you are trapped only by
your wrong thought toward a situation, never by the
situation itself. This does not mean that you necessarily
remain in an unwanted position; it means you
must first see your own faulty thinking toward it.
Unless this is done, you will merely leap from the
battered ship into the stormy sea.
An anxious attempt to destroy enemies must certainly
fail. Don’t try to destroy enemies, whoever or
whatever they are. Even if you succeed, you fail, for
they disappear only to be replaced by other adversaries,
as your experience has shown you. This forces
you into battle after battle until you are worn out.
The right way is to let enemies destroy themselves.
You start by seeing that enemies are not
external to you. No, your enemies are not cruel
people or frustrating conditions. It only appears so
because you do not as yet understand. But you can
start all over with a fresh mind. You can replace
THINKING with KNOWING.(Vernon Howard)