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Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'we don't know?' the fact is that you're surrounded -god and you don't see god, because you know about god. the final barrier to the vision of god is your god concept. you miss god because you think you know. the highest knowledge of god is to know god as unknowable. all revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. as we say in the east, 'when the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.
-Anthony De Mello
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Wouldn't It Be Wonderful If We Had

Anthony De Mello
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'we don't know?' the fact is that you're surrounded -god and you don't see god, because you know about god. the final barrier to the vision of god is your god concept. you miss god because you think you know. the highest knowledge of god is to know god as unknowable. all revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. as we say in the east, 'when the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.
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