Raimon Panikkar Quotes

• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Adventure, Cosmic, Experiments

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• The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Reality, Men, Self

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• God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Greatness, Existence

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• "thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Events

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