Individual Quote by Bede Griffiths Download Open image “Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.” — Bede Griffiths ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Individual Inspirational Love Serenity Stillness
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more… — Wendell Berry 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
This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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