Paul Brunton Quotes

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• You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
• No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out…
• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first,…
• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature…
• God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
• Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing…
• The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet…
• Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
• Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human…
• Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign…
• The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance…
• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated.…
• If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are…
• Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
• Your self is sacred; be true to it.
• Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out…
• The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
• 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…
• The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.
• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative…

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