PREFACE
Tony de Mello, along with Dic McHugh and Joe Aizpun presented the classes and directed the therapy at the Sadhana Institute in Lonavla. I was privileged to have the opportunity to visit India and to take part in the 1985-86 Maxi Program. We had group sessions five hours a day. five days each week. While everyone looked forward to the stimulating exchanges and discoveries of class, the highlight of the day occurred at 7:00 AM. At the dark hour of the morning, Tony would present an original meditation that would last about twenty minutes. It was definitely original, as you will observe; he regularly composed each one the night prior to presenting it. Meditation indeed! And of the highest calibre! The forty people who heard these unusual ideas and insights in the chapel were inspired to dialogue about them and apply them to their lives.
I have looked forward since my Maxi experience to seeing these meditations published. I think there must be at least a hundred more of these meditations in some nook or cranny, for Tony never missed morning meditation; for him meditation was fun; it was just another one of many delightful highlights in the day of a mystic.
Since receiving the first printing of Call To Love, I have used the meditations with more than fifty retreat groups with remarkable results. Depending on the variety of the congregation and the disposition of the individuals I have used abbreviated renditions and modified versions.
Each meditation in its entirety is most appropriate while one is engaged in the Ignatian Exercises, while on retreat, or when there is ample time for reflection.
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