"The succession of thoughts appears in time, but……" — Paul Brunton
"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 of enlightenment is missed."
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44 Quotes by Paul Brunton
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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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The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will…
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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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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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
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