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Alligator teeth for pearls

A woman tourist from the West was admiring a native’: necklace.

“What is it made of?” she asked.

“Alligator teeth, ma’am,” said the native,

“Oh, I see. I suppose they have the same value for you people that pearls have for us,”

“Not quite. Anyone can open an oyster,”


The enlightened understand that a diamond is a stone until endowed with value by the human mind.

And that things are as big or as small as your mind chooses to make them.

The prayer of the frog. Volume - II

Anthony de Mello

On Fear and Love

Fearlessness

"What is love?"

"The total absence of fear," said the Master.

"What is it we fear?"

"Love," said the Master.

ONE MINUTE WISDOM

Anthony de Mello

One Minute Wisdom

One Minute Wisdom 

"Is there such a thing as One Minute Wisdom?"
"There certainly is," said the Master.
"But surely one minute is too brief?"
"It is fifty-nine seconds too long."


To his puzzled disciples the Master later said,
"How much time does it take to catch
sight of the moon?"
"Then why all these years of spiritual endeavor?"
"Opening one's eyes may take a lifetime.
Seeing is done in a flash."

ONE MINUTE WISDOM

Anthony de Mello

Profit

Profit

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon

when we cannot live on the earth?

Awareness

Anthony de Mello