Raimon Panikkar famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Christian #Buddhist #Europe
God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Greatness #Existence
"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Gratitude #Grateful #Events
Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Adventure #Cosmic #Experiments
The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.
-- Raimon Panikkar

#Reality #Men #Self

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
My family background was deeply Christian.
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of proprietyâ€“â€“Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

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