Anthony de Mello
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Sep 16, 2026
Frank BuckleyGUEST
And that's been my experience.
Frank BuckleyGUEST
You know, I really thought, reflected this last year, like, w- as Anthony de Mello states, would say, "Spirituality's about waking up." And really, Homeboy Industries and metastatic cancer, in a lot of ways, saved my life.
Frank BuckleyGUEST
Like, I met this God in here-
Tom VozzoHOST
Mm
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Frank BuckleyGUEST
So [laughs] it's like, I think you do need people in charge.
Tom VozzoHOST
Gotcha.
Frank BuckleyGUEST
St. Ignatius, uh, the Jesuit, Indian Jesuit, Anthony de Mello, would always talk about Ignatius said we wanna be contemplatives in action.
Frank BuckleyGUEST
But in the West, we put it too much the accent on action, and Ignatius wanted it on contemplation.
Michael KurkowskiHOST
I think it's-- there's something with, um, like a solution versus a relief like debate that's going on.
Michael KurkowskiHOST
I remember Anthony de Mello says this beautifully in his book Awareness, where, um, are you looking for a solution or are you looking for a relief? And so often it's so easy to find a relief.
Michael KurkowskiHOST
I don't feel good right now, and you get the quickest thing that can just make you feel a little bit better than where you are right now, and it feels like a solution.
Michael KurkowskiHOST
But in reality, it's a Band-Aid over a bullet hole.
MeredithUNKNOWN
Because if God is like Jesus, and if what we know of God is just the beginning of who God really is, whatever God really is, God is better.
MeredithUNKNOWN
The Jesuit priest, Anthony DeMello, says, "Behold the one beholding you and smiling." It reminds me of the song, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
MeredithUNKNOWN
Behold the one beholding you and smiling.
MeredithUNKNOWN
A number of years ago, I was in a group where a worship leader wasn't sure they really liked the song, particularly the line about the things of earth growing strangely dim.
Robert BarronGUEST
Yeah.
Robert BarronGUEST
I remember this years ago, Anthony De Mello, the spiritual writer, he said, "Just picking up the rosary and holding it-
Matthew PetrusekHOST
Yeah
Robert BarronGUEST
... puts me in an attitude of prayer." And it, to me, it's, it's, it's anti-Cartesian.
Tim MHOST
Find a system that works.
Tim MHOST
A book that really helps, there was an Indian Jesuit called Anthony de Mello who synthesizes...
Tim MHOST
It's a little bit of Hindu tradition, but he was a Jesuit priest.
Tim MHOST
And he writes, and he's very good.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
What are the most commonly gifted books that you have given to other people?
Tim FerrissGUEST
Awareness by Anthony de Mello.
Tim FerrissGUEST
I think the subtitle is The Promise, The Promises and Perils of Reality, [chuckles] something like that.
Tim FerrissGUEST
Very short read.
Tim FerrissGUEST
It's, it's a tough love book.
Tim FerrissGUEST
It's not for everybody, but it's, it's good medicine for the right people at the right time.
Tim FerrissGUEST
So Awareness by Anthony de Mello, and I have a full shelf of this book in my guest bedroom in my house.
Chris WilliamsonHOST
It's all the same book?
Brian PennieGUEST
For me, what's important to you? Do you know that way? So ask yourself, like one thing I always think about, think about the people you admire.
Brian PennieGUEST
And for me, let's say from a spiritual perspective, I was a big admirer of Eckhart Tolle's work and Anthony de Mello.
Brian PennieGUEST
They're spiritual teachers.
Brian PennieGUEST
So what is important in their lives? An inner peace.
Brian PennieGUEST
That's what's important in their lives.
Brian PennieGUEST
But another way of putting that into action.
Brian PennieGUEST
So if I was sort of faced with a challenge, I'd say, what would Eckhart Tolle do? Or what would Anthony de Mello do? What would Marcus Aurelius do? And you could start to say, right, who do you admire? Because if you admire something in them, it probably speaks to something that's important to you that you're not doing.
Brian PennieGUEST
I remember like I'm innately impulsive.
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Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight.' The foolish woman is loud; she is ignorant and knows nothing.
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She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the high places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, 'You who are simple, turn in here!' And to those without sense she says, 'Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.' But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol." Our spiritual voice is Anthony DeMello.
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"Happiness is our natural state.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Happiness is the natural state of little children to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.
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speaker_0HOST
Nuestra voz espiritual es Anthony de Mello: La felicidad es nuestro estado natural.
speaker_0HOST
La felicidad es el estado natural de los niños pequeños, a quienes les pertenece el reino hasta que han sido contaminados y envenenados por la estupidez de la sociedad y la cultura.
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Para adquirir la felicidad no tienes que hacer nada, porque la felicidad no se puede adquirir.
Blake MycoskieGUEST
Now also it helps to, you know, have good teachers to be able to read great books like the Rob Bell book is a great example.
Blake MycoskieGUEST
My other favorite book of all time when it comes to spirituality is by an Indian Jesuit priest named Anthony DeMello.
Blake MycoskieGUEST
And Anthony DeMello wrote a book called Awareness.
Blake MycoskieGUEST
And I truly believe...
Blake MycoskieGUEST
On my
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