The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The mysterious manner in which this growing sense of unity commingles with a sense of utter goodness is worth noting. It arises by no… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily hearing from… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for this loss.… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from the outside… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
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