“You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking — similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.”

— Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 8

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Indian writer 1931–1987

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