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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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THE WAY TO LOVE The hast Meditations of
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Mello, Anthony,
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[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.
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Meditations.
1.
[BX2182.2.D3868
Title.
94-23993 CIP
1995]
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ISBN 0-385-24939-X Copyright
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1991 by Gujarat Sahitya Prakash of Anand, India
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Francis Stroud
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Contents
Introduction Profit
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and Loss
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Discipleship
The Extra Mile He Went Away Sad The Eye of a Needle Nowhere
to
Go
Blind See
Heaven
at
Hand
What Must
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Do?
No Stone Will How to Give?
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Bring in the Poor
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Be Left
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Serpents and Doves
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Men
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of Violence
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