Quotes from One Minute Wisdom — Anthony de Mello
1931–1987 India
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?
The Master is not concerned with what we believe — only with what we see.
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.
The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Is there life before death? — that is the question!
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
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