A Year with Anthony De Mello : Waking Up Week by Week ( Awareness )

Finally, an Anthony De Mello book designed just like the famous workshops De Mello conducted in the 1980s at Fordham University . The book's binding allows the book to open fully for the pages to lay flat, making it easy to journal and to complete the simple worksheets and exercises. The Promise Anthony (Tony) De Mello Makes: "I can promise you this," Tony said in opening his workshop. "I have not known a single person who gave time to being aware in this way who didn't see a difference in a matter of weeks. The quality of your life changes, so you don't have to take it on faith anymore. You see it; you're different. You react differently. In fact, you react less and act more. You see things you've never seen before. You're much more energetic, much more alive. You lose your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. You will gaze out at the world and say, My, how different everything looks." The Breakthough into Happiness: We have all been programmed to seek happiness outside of ourselves—seized through great effort from an unpredictable world—and then to become upset and self-condemning when our effort fails to realize its promise of fulfillment, which it always fails to do. This is not to say that success isn't a reasonable pursuit, but it cannot give us happiness. Nothing of the world can. Why? Because we have it already. The happiness, peace, and love that defines fulfillment are already yours, encoded in your spiritual DNA. They are not earned or acquired. They live in you as you to be expressed through you. The only effort needed is really no effort at all; it's a matter of seeing and then dropping a set of false beliefs blocking you. A Year with Anthony De Mello is a week-by-week workshop of fifty-two passages gleamed from De Mello's workshops. It is suggested you go week by week, but you can move through the sections at whatever pace works best for you. Each week's passage is followed by a favorite parable or koan Anthony admired to illuminate the passage, and each week there are two simple but engaging exercises to actualize the week's teaching. Following each week's section is a number of lined, blank pages for journaling about your own insights during the week. Cover Title Page Dedication Foreword Introduction How to Use This Book Tony’s Workshop in a Book The Practice Part 1: The Kingdom of Joy Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Part 2: The Land of Love Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30 Week 31 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Week 35 Part 3: Rediscovering Life Week 36 Week 37 Week 38 Week 39 Week 40 Week 41 Week 42 Week 43 Week 44 Week 45 Part 4: The Me, the I, and God Week 46 Week 47 Week 48 Week 49 Week 50 Part 5: Faith Week 51 Week 52 Part 6: One Last Word—All is well The Coming Year Conclusion: Next Steps Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright