Have you ever attempted to organize something like peace? The moment you do, you have power conflicts and group wars within the organization. The onl… - Anthony de Mello

The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."

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 frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: "You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story."