Paul Brunton

Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith...

— Paul Brunton

“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly…

— Paul Brunton

“The mysterious manner in which this growing sense of unity commingles with a sense of utter goodness is worth noting. It arises…

— Paul Brunton

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad…

— Paul Brunton

“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.”

— Paul Brunton

“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily…

— Paul Brunton

“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for…

— Paul Brunton

“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from…

— Paul Brunton

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting…

— Paul Brunton

While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open…

— Paul Brunton

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even…

— Paul Brunton

“It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a…

— Paul Brunton

The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has…

— Paul Brunton

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement…

— Paul Brunton

Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost…

— Paul Brunton

“It is often advisable to be one's own guide, studying worthy books, using prayer and reflection, and following the intuitive guidance of…

— Paul Brunton

“What we were in the past is not important. What we are now is important. What we intend to make of ourselves…

— Paul Brunton

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

— Paul Brunton

“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is…

— Paul Brunton

“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.”

— Paul Brunton

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,…

— Paul Brunton

Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true…

— Paul Brunton

“How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same…

— Paul Brunton

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for…

— Paul Brunton

“As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns…

— Paul Brunton