The Way To Love contains 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.
IntroductionProfit and Loss1Discipleship4The Extra Mile10He Went Away Sad15The Eye of a Needle20Nowhere to Go24Bring in the Poor28The Blind See32Heaven at Hand37What Must I Do?41No Stone Will Be Left45How to Give?51Serpents and Doves55Men of Violence59Show No Partiality64One Teacher68Become Like Children73Love One Another77No Looking Back81Love Your Enemies86Tax Collectors and Sinners90Be Awake97The Mountain of Prayer102Judge Not107Pluck Out the Eye110Suffering and Glory118Fire on the Earth121Consider the Lilies128Lost and Found133The Lamp of the Body137Be Ready143