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
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and… — 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
