"What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master

~ Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

"The trouble with the world," said the Master with a sigh, "is that human beings refuse to grow up."

"When can a person be said to have grown up?" asked a disciple.

"Oh the day he does not need to be lied to about anything."

~ Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

"Calamities can bring growth and Enlightenment," said the Master.

And he explained it thus:

"Each day a bird would shelter in the withered branches of a tree that stood in the middle of a vast deserted plain. One day a whirlwind uprooted the tree, forcing the poor bird to fly a hundred miles in search of shelter - till it finally came to a forest of fruit-laden trees."

And he concluded: "If the withered tree had survived, nothing would have induced the bird to give up its... read more

The Master said, "It is, alas, easier to travel than to stop."

The disciples demanded to know why.

"Because as long as you travel to a goal, you can hold on to a dream. When you stop, you face reality."

"How shall we ever change if we have no goals or dreams?" asked the mystified disciples.

"Change that is real is change that is not willed. Face reality and unwilled change will happen."

"There was a holy man who lived in a hermitage on a mountain. Although solitary, it was not strictly a hermitage because some monks lived there with him. Even before the world began to seek him out, he was rarely alone.

When word got out about him, people came to see him during the summer months when the hermitage was accessible, first a few people, then more and more until there was a long line climbing the steep mountain path single file - tens, hundreds, and then thousands, some of wh... read more