It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations. — 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 effort of mine; rather does it come to me out of I know not where. Harmony appears gradually and flows through my whole being like music. An infinite tenderness takes possession of me, smoothing away the… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
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 outward sound, then penetrates still deeper into the void beyond this duality, then beyond ego and its object, until all opposites and dualities vanish, leaving absoluteness. Nirvana follows as a natural consequence. In other words, disengage… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for this loss. He feels the presence of the Overself [...] In the practice of Indian Yoga, Nirvikalpa Samadhi is considered to be the farthest point to which the practitioner can travel. Nirvikalpa Samadhi is the condition of the… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
“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
