5 Anthony de Mello Quotes on Growth

Anthony de Mello quotes on growth

3. A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, 'Wait.' Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: 'Wait.' One day he said to the Master, 'When will I be ready to teach?' Said the Master, 'When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.'

20. People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

42. When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

44. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

45. 'You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.' 'What then is a Master for?' 'To make you see the uselessness of having one.'