Bill: What does it mean: "traded to the New York Nicks?. What's that? Mayka
--- On Wed, 2/3/11, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill! <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Don't Change - By Anthony De Mello To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 2 March, 2011, 3:50 Wasn't Anthony De Mello just traded to the New York Nicks? ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > Dedicated to all those who accept us just as we are: > > There is this story by Anthony de Mello I like it very much for its > simplicity. > > I was a neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed, > selfish. And everyone kept telling me to chance. > > And I resented them, and agreed with them, and > wanted the change, but simple couldn't. No matter how I tried. > > What hurt the most was that, like the others, > My closest friend kept urging me to change. > So, I fell powerless trapped. > > One day he said: "Don't change, I love you as you are" > These words were music to my ears: "Don't change. Don't change. Don't > change.... > I love you as you are" > I relaxed, I come alive. And suddenly, I changed! > > Now I know that I couldn't really change till I found > someone to love me whether I changed or not. > > I this how you love me, God? >
