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“...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then I am also incapable of helping people in more concrete and proximate ways. Conversely, if I am not alert and ready to save people from a conflagration, that is to say, if I do not take my spiritual calling in all earnestness, sacrificing to it all else, even my own life, then I shall be unable to help in rescuing the manuscript. If I do not involve myself in the concrete issues of my time, and if I do not open my house to all the winds of the world, then anything I produce from an ivory tower will be barren and cursed. Yet if I do not shut doors and windows in order to concentrate on this work, then I will not be able to offer anything of value to my neighbors.”
― The Vedic Experience: Mantrama-Njari : An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration
― The Vedic Experience: Mantrama-Njari : An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration
“The concepts of physics-energy, force, mass, number-are as mysterious as the word God. But in physics, even though in many ways we do not know what physical reality is, we nevertheless devise or affirm parameters that permit us to measure regularity or to formulate possible laws in regard to the functioning of physical reality. Such an operation is not possible in regard to God. There are no adequate parameters that would permit us to speak of the "functioning" of that reality we call God.”
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
“Discourse about God is radically different from every l other discourse on every other subject because God is not an object. Were God to be spoken of as object, God would become nothing more than an idol.”
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
“Discourse about God is unique and cannot be compared to any other human language. It is irreducible to any other discourse.”
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
― The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
“Hope is not the expectation of a bright tomorrow. Hope is of the invisible.”
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
“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.”
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
“Saber es mucho más que conocer, como conocer es mucho más que calcular y poder predecir. Saber es saborear y, como diremos enseguida, también amar.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“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.”
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
― Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
“El Ser es hablante antes que pensante.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“Slowly theology has been converted into philosophy. Slowly God has been absorbed by ontology. The true theologian is the philosopher and the contemplative. Contemplation of the world of being not only brings the greatest felicity, it is the very end of human life”
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
“[...] el mismo pensamiento cambia al sujeto pensante.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“Se ha comentado a menudo negativamente que los darsana clásicos digan explícitamente que el fin de la filosofía es la salvación, moksa. Se tacha entonces a la presunta filosofía de teología y se le atribuye una intención espúrea al quehacer filosófico de búsqueda desinteresada e imparcial de la verdad. Que la filosofía tenga una función salvífica significa que por su misma naturaleza la filosofía tiende a liberarnos de todo temor y de todo condicionamiento. La filosofía tenfría por misión la de fundamentar nuestra libertad. Toda filosofía auténtica, nos dirá la India clásica, es una filosofía de la liberación. Nos libera no sólo de las cadenas de la ignorancia, nos libera también del miedo a la acción y de la misma prisión de nuestras construcciones mentales a la par que políticas. Una filosofía que no libere no merece el nombre de tal.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“Nuestra cultura es una tercera piel (la segunda es el entorno ecológico). La naturaleza humana es cultural. La cultura no es un aditamiento artificial del hombre, como un cierto evolucionismo sutilmente presupone. El hombre es un animal cultural, la cultura es natural y las culturas son distintas, aunque no incomunicables.”
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“La actividad filosófica no es neutral. Desde la República de Platón hasta la íntima relación entre brahmino y ksatriya en las Upanisad la filosofía se encuentra íntimamente ligada con la política. No hace falta esperar a Marx para establecer esta conexión. Toda la historia de la filosofía es una confirmación de ello.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“In the first act, humano-divine relationships are founded on reciprocal similarity. God is regarded as having created humankind in the divine image and likeness. 20 Philosophically, of course, it will be said instead that humankind, from time immemorial, has represented God in human image. One of the basic traits of the God of the religions is personality.”
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
“Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
“Slowly theology has been converted into philosophy. Slowly God has
been absorbed by ontology. The true theologian is the philosopher and the
contemplative. Contemplation of the world of being not only brings the
greatest felicity, it is the very end of human life.”
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
been absorbed by ontology. The true theologian is the philosopher and the
contemplative. Contemplation of the world of being not only brings the
greatest felicity, it is the very end of human life.”
― The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
“Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.”
― La experiencia filosófica de la India
― La experiencia filosófica de la India




