Words to Live By
If you are preoccupied with people who are talking about the poor, you scarcely have time to talk to the poor. Some people talk about hunger, but they don't come and say "Mother, here is five rupees. Buy food for these people." But they can give a most beautiful lecture on hunger.
I had the most extraordinary experience once in Bombay. There was a big conference about hunger. I was supposed to go to that meeting and I lost the way. Suddenly I came to that place, and right in
front of the door to where hundreds of people were talking about food and hunger, I found a dying man. I took him out and I took him home.
He died there. He died of hunger.
And the people inside were talking about how in fifteen years we will have so much food, so much this, so much that, and that man died.
See the difference?
-Mother Teresa
I had the most extraordinary experience once in Bombay. There was a big conference about hunger. I was supposed to go to that meeting and I lost the way. Suddenly I came to that place, and right in
front of the door to where hundreds of people were talking about food and hunger, I found a dying man. I took him out and I took him home.
He died there. He died of hunger.
And the people inside were talking about how in fifteen years we will have so much food, so much this, so much that, and that man died.
See the difference?
-Mother Teresa