A beaming smile — it overflows with joy and gratitude. It comes from a man on a thin mattress on the floor. He looks malnourished. And I know he’s dying because he’s at a Missionaries of Charity Home for the Dying. And yet, it’s hard not to look at his photo and long for what he has. It may be little, but it’s what matters most.
Nirmal Hriday — “Home of the Pure Heart” — was founded by Mother Teresa in 1952. The photo was taken by American photographer Michael Collopy when he visited there a year before Mother Teresa’s death, after committing himself to persistence in asking her to sit for a portrait.
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