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De Mello draws a sharp, uncomfortable line between love and attachment. In Western society, we conflate the two. "I love you, therefore I need you," we say. De Mello screams the opposite: If you need someone to be happy, you do not love them; you use them. In The Way to Love, he argues that true love only appears when you are totally free. If you are afraid of losing a person, that fear poisons the relationship. To love is to let go of the need to possess.
Write this on a sticky note: “The way to love is to drop the agenda.” Anthony De Mello - The Way To Love -pdf-
There is a spiritual argument for buying the physical book. The Way to Love is not a novel you read once. It is a reference guide for a spiritual crisis. De Mello draws a sharp, uncomfortable line between
Keep the physical copy on your nightstand. Keep the PDF on your phone for your commute. When you feel the darkness of attachment closing in (a breakup, a job loss, a betrayal), De Mello is best read on paper, where you can scribble in the margins and tear up the pages in frustration at his radical honesty. De Mello screams the opposite: If you need
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De Mello draws a sharp, uncomfortable line between love and attachment. In Western society, we conflate the two. "I love you, therefore I need you," we say. De Mello screams the opposite: If you need someone to be happy, you do not love them; you use them. In The Way to Love, he argues that true love only appears when you are totally free. If you are afraid of losing a person, that fear poisons the relationship. To love is to let go of the need to possess.
Write this on a sticky note: “The way to love is to drop the agenda.”
There is a spiritual argument for buying the physical book. The Way to Love is not a novel you read once. It is a reference guide for a spiritual crisis.
Keep the physical copy on your nightstand. Keep the PDF on your phone for your commute. When you feel the darkness of attachment closing in (a breakup, a job loss, a betrayal), De Mello is best read on paper, where you can scribble in the margins and tear up the pages in frustration at his radical honesty.