“How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedon and to love.” Anthony DeMello – The Way To Love
DeMello notes that we spend much, perhaps most, of our lives “people pleasing,” or in his words, “spending every waking moment of your day placating and pleasing people, whether they are living or dead.” We do so in how we dress, how we talk, how we act. He challenges us to find those activities that “delight and grip your soul,” without regard to how they will be seen or judged by others.
“If you desire this love to exist in your life you must break loose from your inward dependence on people by becoming aware of it and by engaging in activities that you love to do for themselves.”