The Master’s expansive mood emboldened his disciples to say, “Tell us what you got from Enlightenment. Did you become divine?”
“No.”
“Did you become a saint?”
“No.”
“Then what did you become?”
“Awake.”
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“How shall I help the world?”
“By understanding it,” said the Master.
“And how shall I understand it?”
“By turning away from it.”
“How then shall I serve humanity?”
“By understanding yourself.”
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“Of what use is your learning and your devotions? Does a donkey become wise through living in a library or does a mouse acquire holiness from living in a church?”
“What is it, then, we need?”
“A heart.”
“How does one get that?”
The Master would not say. What could he say that they wouldn’t turn into a subject to be learned or an object of devotion?
— Anthony de Mello
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