You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking — similar to that of little … - Anthony de Mello

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

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!"