The way to love : the last meditations of Anthony de Mello

Profound love is at the heart of this warm, compassionate collection of meditations by spiritual master Anthony de Mello -- a last inspiring gift to the countless readers whose lives he touched. The Way To Love Contains The Final Flowering Of Anthony De Mello's Thought. Here, More Than Ever Before In His Bestselling Writing, He Grapples With The Ultimate Question Of Love. In Thirty-one Meditations, Each Several Pages Long And Each Preceded By A Gospel Quotation, He Implores His Readers With His Usual Pithiness To Break Through Illusion, The Great Obstacle To Love. Love Springs From Awareness, De Mello Insists, Saying That It Is Only When We See The Other As He Or She Really Is That We Begin To Love. The Second Act Of Love, He Says, Is Seeing Ourselves Without Illusion - Without The Coercive Nature Of Our Needs, Desires, Memories, Prejudices, And Projections. If These Steps Are Taken, Then Love Will Steal Upon A Person Or Into A Relationship. But The Task Is Not Easy. The Most Painful Act The Human Can Perform, De Mello Says, Is The Act Of Seeing. It Is In That Act Of Seeing That Love Is Born. These Are Meditations To Be Savored And Shared. This Is A Book - In A Handy Gift Sizeto Be Held Close To The Heart.--jacket. Introduction -- Profit And Loss -- Discipleship -- The Extra Mile -- He Went Away Sad -- The Eye Of The Needle -- Nowhere To Go -- Bring In The Poor -- The Blind See -- Heaven At Hand -- What Must I Do? -- How To Give? -- Serpents And Doves -- Men Of Violence -- Show No Partiality -- One Teacher -- Become Like Children -- Love One Another -- No Looking Back -- Love Your Enemies -- Tax Collectors And Sinners -- Be Awake -- The Mountain Of Prayer -- Judge Not -- Pluck Out The Eye -- Suffering And Glory -- Fire On The Earth -- Consider The Lilies -- Lost And Found -- The Lamp Of The Body -- Be Ready. Anthoy De Mello. Originally Published: Call To Love. India : Gujrat Sahitya Prakash, 1991. Dustjacket ......Page 1 Title page ......Page 7 Contents ......Page 9 Introduction by J. Francis Stroud ......Page 11 Profit and Loss ......Page 17 Discipleship ......Page 20 The Extra Mile ......Page 26 He Went Away Sad ......Page 31 The Eye of a Needle ......Page 36 Nowhere to Go ......Page 40 Bring in the Poor ......Page 44 The Blind See ......Page 48 Heaven at Hand ......Page 53 What Must I Do? ......Page 57 No Stone Will Be Left ......Page 61 How to Give? ......Page 67 Serpents and Doves ......Page 71 Men of Violence ......Page 75 Show No Partiality ......Page 80 One Teacher ......Page 84 Become Like Children ......Page 89 Love One Another ......Page 93 No Looking Back ......Page 97 Love Your Enemies ......Page 102 Tax Collectors and Sinners ......Page 106 Be Awake ......Page 113 The Mountain of Prayer ......Page 118 Judge Not ......Page 123 Pluck Out the Eye ......Page 126 Suffering and Glory ......Page 134 Fire on the Earth ......Page 137 Consider the Lilies ......Page 144 Lost and Found ......Page 149 The Lamp of the Body ......Page 153 Be Ready ......Page 159