Bede Griffiths Quotes

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Invisible things are the only realities.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.