How to Enjoy Life Fully

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🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today’s reading features an excerpt from The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello. Anthony was an Indian Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, and spiritual teacher, writer, and public speaker who wrote several books on spirituality, including this collection of his last meditations on love and awareness. In today’s excerpt, Anthony explores the origins of our wants and desires, and how they translate into our quest for love.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.
0:08.2	On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic
0:13.3	texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom
0:21.6	that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.
0:25.6	We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that
0:30.2	you're able to apply it to actual life.
0:33.5	Thank you for listening.
0:40.0	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday.
0:41.3	Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.
0:46.4	Today's episode actually comes to us from a friend of mine, indirectly.
0:52.1	The great shock a smart formerly the head basketball coach at University of Texas now at
0:56.2	Marquette.
0:57.6	We were having lunch in Austin several years ago and he recommended this little book he was
1:01.5	reading The Way To Love by Anthony Dimeo, also known as Tony Dimeo, who was an Indian Jesuit
1:08.7	priest and a psychotherapist.
1:10.1	You wrote these beautiful, in this case, a very little book on spirituality.
1:15.2	And The Way To Love is a collection of Dimeo's last meditations on love and awareness in
1:20.1	your life deals with a very stoic idea, the idea of attachments, right?
1:25.3	And how they can make us do irrational things.
1:29.4	And that love is something different, I guess, than attachments.
1:32.2	Anyways, it's beautiful.
1:33.2	I won't try to explain it.
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