"This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative……" — 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, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions."
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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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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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