“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over from doing, trying, and managing things by his own self alone and when he can let go 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
“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
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
“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it.… — Paul Brunton Copy Share
