Enlightenment is: absolute ...

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
 Anthony de Mello

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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
 Anthony de Mello
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
 Anthony de Mello
What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
 Anthony de Mello
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
 Anthony de Mello
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
 Anthony de Mello