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The Way to Love The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello

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.

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra said it was a great book, one of his favorites, and quoted a line that illustrated how anxiety can hijack attention.

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There's this line from the book The Way to Love by the Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello. Great, great book, by the way.

— Episode: That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habi...

Episode: That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can...

Ezra said it was a great book, one of his favorites, and quoted a line that illustrated how anxiety can hijack attention.

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There's this line from the book The Way to Love by the Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello. Great, great book, by the way.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

An audiobook excerpt was played, focusing on awareness as a key to creating change and achieving holiness. The speaker emphasized that effort alone is insufficient for genuine transformation, highlighting the importance of non-judgmental self-observation.

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Sooner or later, their rises in every human heart, the desire for holiness, spirituality, God call it what you will.

— Episode: How to Create Change in Your Life

Episode: How to Create Change in Your Life

An audiobook excerpt was played, focusing on awareness as a key to creating change and achieving holiness. The speaker emphasized that effort alone is insufficient for genuine transformation, highlighting the importance of non-judgmental self-observation.

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Sooner or later, their rises in every human heart, the desire for holiness, spirituality, God call it what you will.

Effort does not lead to growth, effort whatever form it may take whether it be willpower or habit or technique or a spiritual exercise does not lead to change.

Effort may change the behaviour but it does not change the person.

You truly win the love of others not by the practice of techniques but by being a certain kind of person.

What matters is what you are, what you become.

Episode: How to Enjoy Life Fully

This book, a collection of the author's last meditations on love and awareness, was described as beautiful and impactful. It explores the origins of wants and desires and how they relate to our pursuit of love, touching on stoic ideas around attachments.

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he recommended this little book he was reading the way to love by Anthony Dimaio also known as Tony Dimaio who is an Indian Jesuit priest and a psychotherapist, you wrote these beautiful in this case a very little book on spirituality.

And the way to love is is a collection of Dimaio's last meditations on love and awareness in your life deals with a very stoic idea, the idea of attachments right and how they can make us do irrational things.

it's beautiful. I won't try to explain it all just let it speak for itself.

It's a beautiful little book.

which I am absolutely proud to bring to you because it's just so, so very good.

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