There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony. — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“When we approach the Upanishads for an understanding of the Cosmic Mystery, we are coming to the very heart of the Hindu experience of… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“To enter deeply into meditation is to enter into the mystery of suffering love. It is to encounter the woundedness of our human nature.… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“...Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do.… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
