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 et….

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore ina….

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 resp….

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 th….

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love whic….

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of….

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

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immor….

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 di….

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 brough….

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

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality..

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that ….

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 gr….

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony..

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 s….

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 ….

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 ….

...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 ….

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure..

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 re….