The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

Bede Griffiths

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The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
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Restoration
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 of God.

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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 of God.
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Years Yoga
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Made Own
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments – father, mother, wife, children – everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life.

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To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life.
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Eternal Resurrection
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Responsibility Self
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time… It is partly a physical transformation.

BEDE GRIFFITHS

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time… It is partly a physical transformation.
BEDE GRIFFITHS
The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

BEDE GRIFFITHS

The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
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…the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

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Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
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Rejection
There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not ‘known’ at this point and thus transmuted.

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There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not ‘known’ at this point and thus transmuted.
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Point Transmuted
It was God’s purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth’.

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It was God’s purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth’.
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Thing Unite
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
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Easter Yoga
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
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Tradition
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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Stillness
In his (Christ’s) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality.
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Agony

The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

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