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

Bede Griffiths

#Reality Quotes #Vision Quotes #Adequate Quotes

“I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!”
“Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.”
“If men had more up top we'd need less up front”
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”

Source : Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”
“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.”
“You're intoxicated by my very presence.”
“If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.”
“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether youâ€™re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

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