"To find the Kingdom is the easiest thing in the world but also the most difficult. Easy because it is all around you and within you, and all you have to do is reach out and take possession of it. Difficult because if you wish to possess the kingdom you may possess nothing else. That is, you must drop all inward leaning on any person or thing, withdrawing from them forever the power to thrill you, or excite you, or to give you a feeling of security or well-being. For this you first need to see with unflinching clarity this simple and shattering truth: Contrary to what your culture and religion have taught you, nothing, but absolutely nothing can make you happy. The moment you see that, you will stop moving from one job to another, one friend to another, one place, one spiritual technique, one guru to another. None of these things can give you a single minute of happiness. They can only offer you a temporary thrill, a pleasure that initially grows in intensity, then turns into pain if you lose them and into boredom if you keep them. Think of the numberless persons and things that so excited you in the past. What happened? In every single instance they ended up by causing you suffering, or boredom, did they not? It is absolutely essential that you see this because till you do, there is no question of your ever finding the kingdom of joy. Mostly people are not prepared to see till they have suffered repeated disillusionment and sorrow. And even then only one in a million has the desire to see. They just keep going at it pathetically knocking at the door of other creatures, begging bowl in hand, craving affection and approval and guidance and power and honor and success. For they obstinately refuse to understand that happiness is not in these things.
If you search within your heart you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly. Have you ever felt disgusted with life, sick at heart of constantly running away from fears and anxieties, weary of your begging rounds, exhausted from being dragged about helplessly by your attachments and addictions? Have you ever felt the utter meaninglessness of working for a degree, then finding a job, then settling down to a life of boredom; or, if you are an achiever, settling down to a life of emotional turmoil caused by the things that you are chasing after? If you have, and is there a single human being who hasn't, the divine flame of discontent has arisen within your heart. Now is the time to feed it before it is stamped out by the routine chores of life. Now is the Holy Season when you simply must find the time to get away and look at your life, allowing the flame to grow and grow as you look, refusing to let anything distract you from this task.
Now is the time to see that absolutely nothing outside of you can bring you lasting joy. But the moment you do that you will notice that a fear arises in your heart. That fear that if you allow the discontent to be, it will turn into a raging passion that will grip you and cause you to revolt against everything that your culture and your religion hold dear; against a whole way of thinking and feeling and perceiving the world that they have brainwashed you into accepting. This devouring flame will cause you not just to rock the boat but to burn the boat to ashes. Suddenly you will find yourself living in an altogether different world, infinitely removed from the world of the people around you, for everything that others hold dear, everything they are crying their hearts out for, honor, power, acceptance, approval, security, wealth, is seen for the stinking garbage that it is. It disgusts and nauseates. And everything others are forever running away from holds no terrors for you anymore. You have become serene and fearless and free, for you have stepped out of your illusory world and into the kingdom. "
Preuzeto iz knjige Anthony de Mello - "The Way to Love" (poglavlje "Fire on Earth").
Evo link za download:
https://1lib.eu/book/2077445/ae0ce2 . Ima i hrvatska verzija knjige, zove se Put ljubavi, ali na žalost nisam je uspio zgrabiti
Evo sam ipak našao online domacu verziju:
Klikni na mene!
"Razmislite o paraboli Carstva, sadržanoj u jevanđeIju. Carstvo je blago zakopano na nekoj livadi. Čovek koji ga pronalazi, vraća ga u zemlju, zatim zadovoljno odlazi da rasproda sve što poseduje da bi kupio tu livadu.
Ako još niste našli blago, ne gubite vreme tražeći ga.
Blago se može pronaći, ali zaludno je tražiti ga, jer je vama potpuno nepoznato kakvo je to blago. Ono što poznajete samo je drogirana sreća vašeg sadašnjeg postojanja. Šta onda da tražite? I gde? Tražite u svom srcu, tu iskru nezadovoljstva, i raspalite plamen dok ne bukne u ogroman požar.
Mladi ili stari, većina nas nezadovoljna je životom jednostavno zato što želimo nešto: više saznanja, bolji posao, lepši automobil, veću platu. Naše nezadovoljstvo rađa se iz naše želje za „još više". Ali ja ne raspravljam o toj vrsti nezadovoljstva. Baš ta želja za „još više" ometa jasno razmišljanje. Ako smo, naprotiv, nezadovoljni ne zato što nešto određeno želimo (nezadovoljni svojom trkom za novcem ili položajem, svojom tradicijom, onim što imamo i što možemo dobiti), već samo nezadovoljni, ničim posebno, već svime u celini, tada će nas nezadovoljstvo prosvetliti. Kada se ne zadovoljimo da sve prihvatamo ili pratimo zatvorenih očiju, već to počnemo da dovodimo u pitanje, da istražujemo i produbljujemo problem, tada postoji opažanje, a od njega potiču radost i kreativnost.
Najčešće, vaše nezadovoljstvo posledica je toga što vam nešto nedostaje. Nezadovoljni ste jer nemate dovoljno novca, moći, uspeha, vrline, ljubavi ili svetosti. To nije zadovoljstvo koje će vam radikalno promeniti život.
Kada je poreklo nezadovoljstva u pohlepi ili ambiciji, njegovi plodovi su nemir i frustracija. Onog dana kada budete nezadovoljni ne zato što vam nedostaje ovo ili ono, već nešto što uopšte ne možete da izrazite; onog dana kada budete imali dovoljno svega za čim ste do tada trčali i kada vam bude dosta tog trčanja, u vašem srcu nešto će se razbistriti, doživećete unutrašnju viziju, posle koje ćete početi da uživate u svemu i ni u čemu."