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Masters Quotes by Anthony de Mello
- A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together"....
- "That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.
- "What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
- The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
- As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
- 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…
- A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also…
- One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was.…
- 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…
- Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
- Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired…
- The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended…
- 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…
- Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your…
- "What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
- "My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept…
- "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When…
- The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?"…
- The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things…
- "Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see…
- The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master…
More Masters Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
- It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton