“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
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
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“In the heart's deepest place, where the burden of ego is dropped and the mystery of soul is penetrated, a man finds… — 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
