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The Way To Lovecontains the final flowering of Anthony de Mello's thought, and in it he grapples with the ultimate question of love. In thirty-one meditations, 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 others as they are that we can begin to really love. But not only must we seek to see others with clarity, we must examine ourselves without misconception. The task, however, is not easy. "The most painful act," de Mello says, "is the act of seeing. But in that act of seeing that love is born." Anthony De Mello was the director of the Sadhana Institute of Pastoral Counseling in Poona, India, and authored several books.The Way To Love is his last.
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A THE WAY TO LOVE The hast Meditations of Anthony de Mello to ^ove Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/waytolovelasOOdeme_0 to ^ove The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello Image Books Doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland An Image Book published o u ^• b b l e d a \' of Bantam Doublcday Dell Publishing Group, a division 1540 Broadway, New New York, Inc. York 10036 Image, Doubleimy, and the portrayal of a deer drinking from of Doubleday, a stream are trademarks a division Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, The Way to Love was originally published as Call Gujaret Sahitya Prakash and was published Doubleday in of Inc. Love in India in to in a 1991 by hardcover edition by 1992. This Image Books edition published June 1995 by special arrangement with Doubleday. Imprimi potest: Lisbert D'Souza, Provincial of S.J. Bombay March 11, 1991 ^Stanislaus Fernandes, Imprimatur: S.J. Bishop of Ahmedahad March 18, 1991 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data De Mello, Anthony, I93I- [Call to love] The way to love: the last meditations p. of Anthony de Mello. cm. Originally published: Call to love. India: Gujrat Sahitya Prakash, 1991. "Image books." I. Meditations. 1. [BX2182.2.D3868 Title. 94-23993 CIP 1995] 242-^c20 ISBN 0-385-24939-X Copyright © 1991 by Gujarat Sahitya Prakash of Anand, India Introduction copyright © 1992 by J. Francis Stroud All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America 15 17 19 20 18 16 Contents Introduction Profit vii and Loss I 5 Discipleship The Extra Mile He Went Away Sad The Eye of a Needle Nowhere to Go Blind See Heaven at Hand What Must I Do? No Stone Will How to Give? 19 27 33 Bring in the Poor The 13 Be Left 37 43 49 55 61 69 Serpents and Doves 75 Men 81 of Violence Contents pi Show No Partiality One Teacher