When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad… — 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… — 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… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“...to be aware of the miracle entailed in every moment of living...” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Life remains what it is--deathless and unbound. We shall all meet again. Know what you are, and be free. The best counsel… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It is while working with the Short Path that the man discovers he may apply its principles to his worldly existence, his… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The practice of extending love towards all living creatures brings on ecstatic states of cosmic joy. In this intently concentrated state he… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over… — 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
