The Frog's Prayer 1

On the eve of his death, in a long letter to a close friend about his early experiences, he said: "It all seems to belong to another time and another world. I think that at present all my interest is focused on something else: the 'world of the spirit', and everything else seems really insignificant and unimportant. The things that meant so much to me in the past are of no interest to me any more. What now absorbs all my interest are things like those of Achaan Chab, the Buddhist master, and I am losing my taste for other things. I do not know whether all this is an illusion: what I do know is that never in my life ...

ANTONY DE MELLO, SJ TE

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