Anthony DeMello, SJ

From "Conversations with the Master"





"The Master held that the loyalty of theologians to their belief systems made them all too prone to turn a blind eye to the truth and to reject the Messiah when he appeared.

Philosophers fared better at his hands. Being unfettered by beliefs, they were more open in their quest, he said. But even philosophy, alas, was limited, for it relied on words and concepts to penetrate a reality that was susceptible only to the nonconceptualizing mind. 'Philosophy,'he once remarked, 'is a disease that is cured only by Enlightenment. Then it gives way to parables and silence'."
       

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 "Spirituality is Waking Up"

Anthony DeMello, S.J.