
"Charity is never so lovely as when one has
lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean
I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance.
It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit
to me." -- Anthony DeMello
It was said about John the Little that one day he
said to his older brother: I want to be free from care and not
to work but to worship God without interruption. And he took his
robe off, and went into the desert. After staying there one week,
he returned to his brother. And when he knocked at the door, his
brother asked without opening it: Who is it? He replied: It's
John, your brother. The brother said: John has become an angel
and is not among people anymore. Then he begged and said: It's
me! But his brother did not open the door and left him there in
distress until the next morning. And he finally opened the door
and said: If you are a human being, you have to work again in
order to live. Then John repented, saying: Forgive me, brother,
for I was wrong. Sayings of the Desert Fathers