Rhythm of Being Quotes

“The only “method” is not to prepare the way, but to prepare ourselves. The sages of all traditions have called it the “purification of the heart,” an interior pilgrimage.”
― Raimon Panikkar, Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures

“Hope is not the expectation of a bright tomorrow. Hope is of the invisible.”
― Raimon Panikkar, Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures

“Moreover, we could not even under-stand the history of our predecessors and contemporaries if in one way or another their narratives did not stand beneath our own being and find a resonance in us. History makes sense only if we are able to rediscover and reinterpret what has been the human experience of our forebears.”
― Raimon Panikkar, Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures