Presente, Passado, Futuro

"If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present".


"Se você está deprimido,
Você está vivendo no passado;
Se você está ansioso,
Você está vivendo no futuro;
Se você está em paz
Você está vivendo no momento presente".


Lao Tzu

Mother Teresa - No more Meetings

Mother Teresa: How much does a bottle of water like this cost?

Waiter: $3.00.

Mother Teresa: $3.00? With $3.00 I can send a child to school for a whole year.

Mr. Forster: Mother, the problems facing us today are immense. We must approve these decisions by a majority vote. We must vote.

Mother Teresa: I understand.

Mr. Forster: Mother, it is in the statute.

Mother Teresa: It was in the statute. But as from today, this association no longer exists.

Mr. Forster: Mother, that is unlawful.

Mother Teresa: Close the bank accounts, no more magazines, no more hotels, no more meetings. We are going back to our roots. Back to being with the poor. Poor among the poor.

Mr. Forster: Father, you cannot allow this to happen. You must react. She has just canceled the good work of the last 30 years of your life.

Father Serrano: It's true. That is true. It's taken 30 years for me to understand she's right.

[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:48:40h]

Madre Teresa - Strength

Atul: Mother Teresa. I was looking all over for you.

Madre Teresa: Not everybody is so pleased to see me.

Atul: Virginia told me you were here.

Madre Teresa: I am happy to see you.

Atul: Well, these are my first wages. I wanted you to have them.

Madre Teresa: You are the ones who give me strength.


[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 00:40:20h]

Madre Teresa - More Disorganized

Mr. Forster: Mother, the problem is we cannot cash any of these checks

Madre Teresa: I don't understand. Why not?

Father Serrano: Because none of these associations exist.

Mr. Forster: We have thousands of volunteers that work for us but not one single organization that binds them all together.

Madre Teresa: As soon as three people get themselves together in a room all they want to do is set up a company.

Father Serrano: But there aren't just three of us anymore, Mother. We have volunteers all over the world.

Anna: Mother Teresa, I think the idea of an association would be a good one. We could put thousands of volunteers in different countries in contact with one another. We would be better coordinated.

Mr. Forster: We could publish a newsletter to bind our organization together.

Madre Teresa: I don't want to form a company. I'm not interested in numbers. I just want our work to be the work of love.

Father Serrano: And why should it change, Mother? Why can't there be love in all this?

Madre Teresa: Let me tell you something. I would prefer things simpler. More... how can I put it? More disorganized. Happily disorganized.


[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:15:15h]

Madre Teresa - Pray

Madre Teresa: You need more tests. You must return home.

Anna: But why? This is my life.

Madre Teresa: Your life... our lives belong to the Lord. He is the one who leads us by the hand.

Anna: My place is here.

Madre Teresa: You will serve Christ in another way.

Anna: How? What is there I can do?

Madre Teresa: Pray. Yes, pray. The work we do here is important. But what is more important is that the work be supported by prayer. That is what keeps everything going. I have a mission for you Anna. I need special helpers. People who can join us in spirit and offer their prayers and their suffering to God. Your body will be in London but your soul will remain here ... helping me build the City of Peace. Will you help me like this?

Anna: But is I don't have the strength, Mother?

Madre Teresa: I know it's difficult, Anna. But we must have faith and believe that it's in moments like these that God loves us the most.

[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:21:00h]