Bede GriffithsAbove 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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Who am I? What am I doing here? We might like to think that we know the answers to these questions. And yet, we don’t know. We can’t know. The only thing we can know is this: We are here, and we are alive. But if we want to get more than this, we have to go beyond words and images and concepts.
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