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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.

Bede Griffiths

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

Abandonment One Self Thing
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
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Dark Self Surrender
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time… It is partly a physical transformation.
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Body Change Heart
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
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Church Reality Spiritual
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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Mystery Tradition World
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Existence Made Own
…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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People Powerful Spiritual
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 Pain Spiritual
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
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Christian Together Understanding
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 that lotus there is a small space, (akasa).
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Beautiful Discovery Heart
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 Life Resurrection Suffering World
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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Children Giving Mother
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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Body Head Heart Problem Stroke
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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Beginning Point Transmuted
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 Years Yoga
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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Humanity Restoration Spiritual

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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