Citas de Bede Griffiths

• Dios me había puesto de rodillas y me había hecho reconocer mi propia nada, y de ese conocimiento había renacido. Yo ya no era el centro de mi vida y, por tanto, podía ver a Dios en todo.

  Bede Griffiths

  God, Easter, Yoga

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• Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
  measure.

  Bede Griffiths

  Individual, Stillness

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• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  Bede Griffiths

  Running, Flower, Fall

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• 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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Unique, Ideas

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• De repente me di cuenta de que no era yo quien buscaba a Dios, sino Dios quien me buscaba a mí. Me había convertido en el centro de mi propia existencia y estaba de espaldas a Dios.

  Bede Griffiths

  Saws, Made, Existence

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• 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.

  Bede Griffiths

  World, Mystery, Tradition

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• 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

  Reality, Vision, Adequate

  Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

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• Este es el criterio por el que se ha de juzgar a la Iglesia, no por las formas de su doctrina o ritual, sino por la realidad del amor que manifiesta.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Reality, Church

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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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Perseverance, Yoga, Years

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• Ya no se trata de que un cristiano vaya a convertir a otros a la fe, sino de que cada uno esté dispuesto a escuchar al otro y así crecer juntos en la comprensión mutua.

  Bede Griffiths

  Christian, Understanding, Together

  Bede Griffiths (1973). “Vedanta & Christian faith”

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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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Humanity, Restoration

  Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub

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• Debes estar dispuesto a renunciar a todo, no sólo a los apegos materiales, sino también a los apegos humanos -padre, madre, esposa, hijos-, a todo lo que tienes. Pero lo único que tienes que abandonar incondicionalmente es tu yo.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Giving Up

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• En su entrega (la de Cristo) en la cruz todo el dolor y la agonía de la humanidad se concentraron en un solo punto, y pasaron de la muerte a la inmortalidad, No hay dolor de ninguna criatura desde el principio hasta el fin de los tiempos que no haya sido "conocido" en este punto y así transmutado. Conocer todas las cosas en el Verbo es, pues, conocer todos los sufrimientos del mundo transfigurados por la resurrección, de algún modo reconciliados y expiados en la vida eterna. Era el propósito de Dios, que estableció en Cristo como plan para la plenitud de los tiempos, unir en él todas las cosas, las del cielo y las de la tierra'.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Pain, Agony

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• 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). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  Bede Griffiths

  Beautiful, Heart, Discovery

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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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Atheist, Rejection, Challenges

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

  Change, Heart, Body

  Bede Griffiths (1997). “A Human Search: Bede Griffiths Reflects on His Life : an Oral History”, Liguori Publications

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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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Powerful, People

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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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Responsibility, Men, Self

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

  Bede Griffiths

  Self, Abandon, One Thing

  Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

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

  Bede Griffiths

  Made, Existence, My Own

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• 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.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mean, Long, Age

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• Estaba siendo llamado a entregar la ciudadela misma de mi yo. Estaba completamente a oscuras. No sabía realmente qué era el arrepentimiento ni de qué debía arrepentirme. Fue sin duda el punto de inflexión de mi vida.

  Bede Griffiths

  Dark, Self, Surrender

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