Mark Dohle
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More About Listening
Prayer is more about listening, allowing the
heart to grow in its ability to embrace God's love,
and then loving others-BrMD
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More About Listening
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More About Listening
Prayer is more about listening, allowing the
heart to grow in its ability to embrace God's love,
and then loving others-BrMD
Reminds me of;
The Talkative Lover
A lover pressed his suit unsuccessfully for many months, suffering the atrocious pains of rejection. Finally his sweetheart yielded. "Come to such and such a place, at such and such an hour," she said to him.
At that time and place the lover finally found himself seated beside his beloved. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a sheaf of love letters that he had written to her over the past months.
They were passionate letters, expressing the pain he felt and his burning desire to experience the delights of love and union. He began to read them to his beloved. The hours passed by but still he read on and on.
Finally the woman said, "What kind of a fool are you? These letters are all about me and your longing for me. Well, here I am sitting with you at last and you are lost in your stupid letters."
"Here I am with you," says God, "and you keep reflecting about me in the head, talking about me with your tongue, and searching for me in you books. When will you shut up and see?"
Anthony de Mello: The Talkative Lover (anthony-de-mello.blogspot.com)
The Talkative Lover
A lover pressed his suit unsuccessfully for many months, suffering the atrocious pains of rejection. Finally his sweetheart yielded. "Come to such and such a place, at such and such an hour," she said to him.
At that time and place the lover finally found himself seated beside his beloved. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a sheaf of love letters that he had written to her over the past months.
They were passionate letters, expressing the pain he felt and his burning desire to experience the delights of love and union. He began to read them to his beloved. The hours passed by but still he read on and on.
Finally the woman said, "What kind of a fool are you? These letters are all about me and your longing for me. Well, here I am sitting with you at last and you are lost in your stupid letters."
"Here I am with you," says God, "and you keep reflecting about me in the head, talking about me with your tongue, and searching for me in you books. When will you shut up and see?"
Anthony de Mello: The Talkative Lover (anthony-de-mello.blogspot.com)
Mark Dohle
Well-Known Member
Anthony de Mello was a powerful speaker. He was not understood by many......
Unfortunately, by some in the Church hierarchy assuming his writings to be a threat to simple faith.
Mark Dohle
Well-Known Member
It is all in the language, he was a very advanced mystic on the Christian path.
peace
mark
Yes, and as a retreat master many of his works he did not publish for the general public but were published posthumously.