Healing happens and it doesn’t happen, and often we don’t know why. Often healing happens to those who have done everything “wrong” and it doesn’t happen for those who have done everything “right.” So, in this paradox, how CAN we heal and be a part of healing?
Tag: Anthony de Mello
What is your face? or place? …either way, let it flow
Christ plays in ten thousand places. Or maybe it’s that Christ dwells in ten thousand faces. However we think of it, it is our journey to find our unique self and let it flow!
The Golden Egg
A STORY as told by Fr. Anthony de Mello: A reading from the scriptures: This is what the Lord says: There was once a goose that laid…… Read more “The Golden Egg”
A simple story for 2011
A tale from Attar of Nishapur:
The lover knocked at the door of his beloved. “Who knocks?” said the beloved from within. “It is I,” said the lover. “Go away. This house will not hold you and me.”
The rejected lover went away into the desert. There he meditated for months on end, pondering the words of the beloved. Finally he returned and knocked at the door again.
“Who knocks?”
“It is you.”
The door was immediately opened.
“100 percent and 100 percent,” I said. “They cannot be separated.”
To be a Friend of the Divine!
Such a beautiful story from Fr Anthony de Mello… Malik, son of Dinar, was upset about the profligate behavior of a youth who lived next door. For…… Read more “To be a Friend of the Divine!”
Nathan Bettger | Oshkosh, WI 