. . .Religion has also served--in a usually very, very small minority--the function of radical transformation and liberation. This function of religion does not fortify the separate self, but utterly shatters it--not consolation but devastation, not entrenchment but emptiness, not complacency but explosion, not comfort but revolution--in short, not a conventional bolstering of consciousness but a radical transmutation and transformation at the deepest seat of consciousness itself.
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The significance of the incarnation is …that through it mankind is raised to a participation in the divine consciousness. Christ experienced himself as the Logos, the Word of God, expressing the mind of the Father, and communicating the divine spirit to the world. Christ as Logos is the Self of the universe.
— Bede Griffiths
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In the Christian view we find in Christ the point at which human consciousness, evolved over an immense period of time from matter and life, enters finally into the divine consciousness. In the resurrection of Christ matter itself is transformed and becomes the vehicle of the divine life. In him the universe thus finds its ultimate meaning as an expression of the mind of God. In him human history finds its culmination and man realizes his destiny as Son of God.
— Bede Griffiths
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
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