"The artist must raise the cup of his……" — Paul Brunton
"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 mellow wine of inspiration."
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44 Quotes by Paul Brunton
Paul Brunton has 44 quotes on this site.
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You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be…
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The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But…
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Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the…
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God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from…
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Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It…
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Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and…
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Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon…
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Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural.…
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The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself…
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and…
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If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite…
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort…
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with…
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Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down.…
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Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through…
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Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash;…
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Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety,…
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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And…
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If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of…
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat…
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but…
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable,…
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