Anthony de Mello Quotes - Page 9

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• The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.

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  Song, Heart, Wind

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.4, Image

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• You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

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  Men, Cells, Vastness

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• When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

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  Moon, Sage, Idiot

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.66, Image

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• To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

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  Ego, Protect, Disturbance

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 33, 1992.

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• This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

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  Knowledge Of God, Humans, Knows

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

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  Atheist, Mistake, Answers

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• The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

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  Cutting, Expression, Law

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• A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

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  Religious, Taken, Eye

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 134), 1992.

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• When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

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  Hate, Guilt, Sin

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.75, Image

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• A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

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  Country, Giving Up, Quests

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.119, Image

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• Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

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  Spiritual, Obedience, Break

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• The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

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  Ocean, People, Frogs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.105, Image

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• There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

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  Law, Obedience, Break

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.66, Image

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• People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

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  Pain, People, Progress

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.117, Image

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• You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

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  Book, Practice, Library

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.100, Image

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• Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

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  People, Saint, Speak

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• This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

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  Blessing, World, Evidence

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• What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

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  People, Laughing, Visitors

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• And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

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  Spiritual, Hate, Guilt

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• "That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

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  Christianity, Masters, Said

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1992.

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• My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

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  Commitment, Consistency

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 31, 1992.

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• I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

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  Teacher, Wish

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.18, Image

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• The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"

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  Eye, Reality, Expression

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 131, 1992.

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• Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

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  Spiritual, Doe, Masters

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.28, Image

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• Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

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  Reality

  "Awakening : Conversations with the Masters". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 221), 2003.

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