Winnipeg Public Library Catalogue

"Look at the world. Look at the heartache everywhere, the fear, the confusion, the conflict-inner conflict, outer conflict. Suppose there is a way you could stop that tremendous drain of energy, of health, of negative emotion that comes from this conflict and confusion. There is a spark of disenchantment and discontent in you that, if fanned into fire, will burn down the whole of the illusory world you are now suffering in, and thereby unveil to your astonished eyes the divinity that you have always lived in unsuspectingly. Its joy is all around you and within you and well within reach. This joy would make your life meaningful, beautiful, and rich if you could only discover it. The time for discovery is now and this book you are holding can open the way for you. Anthony De Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist born in Bombay, India in 1931. He is considered one of the foremost mystical theologians of the late twentieth-century for integrating western and eastern spiritual thought. De Mello's international acclaim rests on his simple, practical spirituality that brings one to a direct experience of one's soul. De Mello founded the Sadhana Institute in India and is the author of the bestselling masterpiece Awareness, along with twelve other books that have been translated into twenty-one languages and have sold more than two-million copies worldwide His large body of work continues to have impact beyond his untimely death in 1987, influencing the some of the world's great spiritual teachers including, Eckhart Tolle, Thomas Moore, Adyashanti, Paulo Coelho, and Rhonda Byrne"--