4 Anthony de Mello Quotes on Teaching

Anthony de Mello quotes on teaching

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.'

4. All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

11. 'I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.' 'Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?' 'I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?' 'You will have grown accustomed to it.'

53. Concerning the power of story, William Dych, S.J. writes in his introduction to selected writings of Anthony De Mello, 'A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.''