BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J. in AWARENESS

“Anytime you’re practicing renunciation, you’re deluded. How about that? You’re deluded. What are you renouncing? Anytime you renounce something, you are tied forever to the thing you renounce…As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

So you must “receive” your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them. Has nobody ever told you this? When you renounce something you’re tied to it. The only way out of this is to see through it. Don’t renounce it, see through it.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, S.J., in “Awareness”

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