Bede Griffiths

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original…

— Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

— Bede Griffiths

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the…

— Bede Griffiths

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore…

— Bede Griffiths

“When we approach the Upanishads for an understanding of the Cosmic Mystery, we are coming to the very heart of the Hindu…

— Bede Griffiths

“To enter deeply into meditation is to enter into the mystery of suffering love. It is to encounter the woundedness of our…

— Bede Griffiths

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is…

— Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking…

— Bede Griffiths

“...Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend…

— Bede Griffiths

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children -…

— Bede Griffiths

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been…

— Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that…

— Bede Griffiths

This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being,…

— Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by…

— Bede Griffiths

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and…

— Bede Griffiths

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift…

— Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something…

— Bede Griffiths

Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year…

— Bede Griffiths

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a…

— Bede Griffiths

“The resurrection does not consist merely of the appearances of Jesus to his disciples after his death. Many think that these appearances…

— Bede Griffiths

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed…

— Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being…

— Bede Griffiths

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine.…

— Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

— Bede Griffiths

“I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in…

— Bede Griffiths