1/“Think of a flabby person covered with fat. That is what your mind can become—flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover. It loses its alertness, its aliveness, its flexibility and goes to sleep.”

2/ “What are these layers? Every belief that you hold, every conclusion you have reached about persons and things, every habit and every attachment. In your formative years you should have been helped to scrape off these layers and liberate your mind.”

3/ “Instead your society, your culture, which put these layers on your mind in the first place, has educated you to not even notice them, to go to sleep and let other people—the experts: your politicians, your cultural and religious leaders—do your thinking for you.

4/ “So you are weighed down with the load of unexamined, unquestioned authority and tradition.”
~Anthony De Mello

His work makes it easy to understand that you’ve been programmed, which frees you to remove incorrect beliefs much more easily when you no longer emotionally own em