The love, the sex and the
suffering, as well as the
influence of the society and the culture, are topics of this book
that drives
us for the path of a total realization, without falling in the simplistic
fashion of so many books of self-help that proliferate in the
contemporary literary world.
To liberate ourselves of all the ties that the customs and
culture have imposed us, it is the super-objective of the Hindu father's
necessary book Anthony De Mello.
Nobody escapes to the pain, but De Mello trained us to
support the
suffering accepting the reality just as it is.
One of the most revolutionary thoughts in the book is the
demonstration of the necessity of thinking for us without psychological,
ideological or cultural ties.
As all religion and philosophy along the time, he points out
the attachment like the base of the suffering, but he demonstrates a road to
live the desire like a game where the important thing is not to win or to lose,
but playing.
An other ideas of the book is the one that teaches us how
not to make depend our happiness on anything external, because we will be this
way slaves of that idea, but of the interior enrichment, where everything,
included the happiness, depends just of myself.
De Mello, who summarizes in his person the psychologist and
the
religious, and in his work synthesizes what unites the man and the
religions, so oriental as western; wants
to arrive to the human being's root, proposing truths that can be debatable,
but always promoting an interior or external discussion that liberate us of the ties that the political,
cultural and religious ideas, they have created in our minds and they prevent
us to live to fullness.
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