Marcela Zelinková Boeken

Mello pro své příběhy čerpá inspiraci z náboženských tradic křesťanství, zenového buddhismu, taoismu nebo islámské mystiky. „Lidské srdce touží po Pravdě, která je osvobozuje a činí šťastným. Proto je velkou záhadou, proč bezprostřední reakce člověka na Pravdu je nepřátelská a ustrašená. Duchovní učitelé našli způsob, jak překonat odmítavý postoj svých posluchačů vyprávět příběh. Budete-li poslouchat pozorně, příběh vnikne do vašeho srdce a překoná překážky bránící vstupu Božího ducha.“

Buch der geistlichen Übungen. Die Übungen in Form von geistlichen Texten führen wie eine Treppe von Gedanken über Gefühle, Fantasie und Sinne bis hin zu einem Zustand der Stille, einer Art Kontemplation mit sich selbst und mit Gott. Das Buch ist im Geiste der christlichen Spiritualität verfasst, ebenso wie die vorherigen Werke des Autors.

The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.In short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office, he cajoles and challenges: We must leave this go-go-go world of illusion and become aware. And this only happens, he insists, by becoming alive to the needs and potential of others, whether at home or in the workplace.Here, then, is a masterful book of the spirit, challenging us to wake up in every aspect of our lives.

From the international bestselling author of Awareness, a pocket-sized guide that will bring you to new levels of spiritual awareness.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.

The Song of the Bird is a manifestation of the hunger for the spiritual spreading around the world. It is a hunger with very special characteristics. People aren't buying set formulas any more, pius platitudes redolent of an area gone by; beaten tracks that did not succeed in brining people to a spiritual awakening. There is an anguished search, sometimes confused in its direction, for a more liberal outlook. Modern man mired in pre-found cultural change first wants to know who he is, what imprisons his soul, what stands in the way of spiritual progress. He wants to rediscover the od beyond all that has been identified through the years with the name of God: laws, norms, doctrines not made flesh, words estranged from life.

De Mellovy exerciční promluvy, které sám pečlivě připravil, ale nestihl publikovat. Velmi působivě zde osvětluje tři základní témata: modlitbu, pokání a Kristovu lásku.