"Thomas Aquinas Stops Writing" - (excerpt) Anthony de Mello - THE SONG OF THE BIRD
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The story goes that Thomas Aquinas, one of the world's ablest theologians, suddenly stopped writing. When his secretary complained that his work was unfinished, Thomas replied, "Brother Reginald, some months ago I experienced something of the Absolute, so all I have ever written about God seems to me now to be like straw." How could it be otherwise when the scholar becomes a seer?
When the mystic came down from the mountain he was accosted by the atheist, who said sarcastically,
"What did you bring us from that garden of delights you were in?"
The mystic replied, "I hadevery intention of filling my skirt with flowers and giving them to my friends on my return. But while I was there I became so intoxicated with the fragrance of the garden that I let go of the skirt. “
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The Zen masters put it succinctly: "The one who knows,
does not say. The one who says, does not know."
