“Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?”

—  Anthony de Mello

Wellsprings : A Book of Spiritual Exercises (1985), p. 19
Context: "I wish to become a teacher of the Truth."
"Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?"
"I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?"
"You will have grown accustomed to it."

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