A gambler once said to the Master, “I was caught cheating at cards yesterday, so my partners beat me up and threw me out of the window. What would you advise me to do?”
The Master looked straight through the man and said, “If I were you, from now on I would play on the ground floor.”
This startled the disciples. “Why didn’t you tell him to stop gambling?” they demanded.
“Because I knew he wouldn’t,” was the Master’s simple and sagacious explanation.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations.
To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, “Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well — or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?”
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To a disciple who consulted him on marriage he said, “Be sure you don’t marry a saint.”
“Why ever not?”
“Because it is the surest way to make yourself a martyr,” was the Master’s merry reply.
By - Anthony de Mello
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