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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
BEDE GRIFFITHS

Individual Society Stillness
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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God Heaven Thing Unite
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
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
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
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
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
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Adequate Reality Vision
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Abandonment One Self Thing
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
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
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
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Age Long Mean
This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal ‘idea’ in God, should ‘become’ God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.
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Ideas Spiritual Unique
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
…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
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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Men Responsibility Self
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

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