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

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.