Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace… — 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
