Bede Griffiths

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 center of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

I saw God in the earth, in trees, in mountains.

It led me to the conviction that there is no absolute good or evil in this world.

We have to let go of all concepts which divide the world into good and evil, right and wrong, and begin to see the complementarity of opposites.

We are born into this world of division and disintegration.

Beyond it all is this undivided wholeness and it is that wholeness which we are all seeking.

We are all fragmented.

but we have this longing for the whole, for the one.

All the weaknesses we find in ourselves and all the things that upset us, we tend to try to push aside and get rid of.

But we cannot do this

We have to accept it and allow grace to come and heal it all.

That is the great secret of suffering.

Not to push it back, but to open to the depths of the unconscious.

and to realize that we are not isolated individuals when we meditate, but are entering into the whole inheritance of the human family.

To enter deeply into meditation is to enter into the mystery of suffering love.

It is to encounter the woundedness of our human nature.

We are all deeply wounded from our infancy

and bear these wounds in the unconscious.