Born in Bombay, British India, Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest who integrated eastern and western learnings of psychotherapy, spirituality and mystical tradition. He was one of the first teachers to bring mindfulness and contemplative practices to the United States. His ideas were radical enough to posthumously prompt the Catholic Church to express concern that de Mello's books "are incompatible with the Catholic faith and can cause grave harm".
So he had me at hello. In this delightfully simple book he observes that what keeps us from knowing and practicing love is our programming and conditioning; our beliefs, ideas and judgments; and our attachments.
“To drop your conditioning in order to see is arduous enough. But seeing calls for something more painful still. The dropping of the control that society exercises over you; a control whose tentacles have penetrated to the very roots of your being, so that to drop it is to tear yourself apart.”
Easier said than done, of course. But it helps to have a teacher and guide to show the way.
Book Summary: Seeing through your Programming: “The Way to Love” by Anthony de Mello (Book Summary)
Book: The Way to Love
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