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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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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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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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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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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.

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

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Bede Griffiths

Bede Griffiths

Born: December 17, 1906

Died: May 13, 1993 (aged 86)

Bio: Bede Griffiths Cam, born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda, was a British-born Benedictine monk and priest who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted yogi.

Known for:

The golden string (1954)
Return to the Center (1976)
The Marriage of East and West (1982)
Bede Griffiths (1992)
A Human Search

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