To a disciple who depended over-much on books the Master said: “A man came to the market with a shopping list and lost it. When to his great joy he found it again, he read it eagerly, held on to it till he had done his shopping
— then threw it away as a useless scrap of paper.”
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A debate raged among the disciples as to which was the most difficult task of all: To write down what God revealed as Scripture, to understand what God had revealed in Scripture or to explain Scripture to others after one had understood it. Said the Master, when asked his opinion, “I know of a more difficult task than any of those three.”
“What is it?”
“Trying to get you blockheads to see reality as it is.”
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The Master once asked his disciples which was more important: wisdom or action.
The disciples were unanimous: “Action, of course. Of what use is wisdom that does not show itself in action?”
Said the Master, “And of what use is action that proceeds from an unenlightened heart?”
By— Anthony de Mello
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