“To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.”

—  Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 127
Context: A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate.
"Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world."
"To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters."

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Indian writer 1931–1987

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