Mother Teresa and her magnanimity

Reading the lives of great people is a great source of inspiration. This evening I was reading the newspaper article on Mother Teresa which appeared on August 26, 2008 in The Hindu by Navin Chawla. Speaking about the simple talks of Mother Teresa, he had this to say: "My mind accepted them largely because of the respect in which I held her - a respect intensified because there was no difference between her words and her deeds, between her precepts and her practice and the fact that she could understand the poor because she was poor herself."

Here's Mother herself: "As long as we remain committed to the poorest of the poor and don't end up serving the rich, the work will prosper."

At the ceremony in Oslo, the then Chairman of the Nobel Committee, John Sannes, had this to say: "... In her eyes, the person who, in the accepted sense, is the recipient, is also the given and the one who gives the most, Giving - giving something of oneself - is what confers real joy, and the person who is allowed to give is the one who receives the most precious gift..."