The Spiritual Wisdom of Anthony de Mello

Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest from India. He fuses spiritual ideas from many religions in a way that makes them accessible to readers. This book is in the form of a lecture at a retreat and it deals with the notion that we walk through life in a kind of sleep that prevents us from achieving a real connection to God and to ourselves.



This book contains the following lectures:



On Waking Up

Will I Be Of Help To You?

On The Proper Kind Of Selfishness

On Wanting Happiness

Are We Talking About Psychology In This Spirituality Course?

Neither Is Renunciation The Solution

Listen And Unlearn

What's On Your Mind?

Good Bad Or Lucky

Our Illusion About Others

Self-Observation

Awareness Without Evaluating Everything

The Illusion Of Rewards

Finding Yourself

Stripping Down To The 'I'

Negative Feelings Toward Others

On Dependence

How Happiness Happens

Fear The Root Of Violence

Awareness And Contact With Reality

Good Religion -The Antithesis Of Unawareness

Labels

Obstacles To Happiness

Four Steps To Wisdom

All's Right With The World

Sleepwalking

Change As Greed

A Changed Person

Arriving At Silence

Losing The Rat Race

Permanent Worth

Desire, Not Preference

Clinging To Illusion

Hugging Memories

Getting Concrete

At A Loss For Words

Cultural Conditioning

Filtered Reality

Detachment

Addictive Love

More Words

Hidden Agendas

Giving In

Assorted Landmines

The Death Of Me

Insight And Understanding

Not Pushing It

Getting Real

Assorted Images

Saying Nothing About Love

Losing Control

Listening To Life

The End Of Analysis

Dead Ahead

The Land Of Love