Awakening Quote by Paul Brunton Download Open image ““We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.”” — Paul Brunton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awakening Contemplation Enlightenment Illumination Knowledge Meditation Paul-brunton Philosophia-perennis Selfrealization
“The paradise we seek is a parallel reality to our Dispirited Dream, waiting for us to see it and choose it. We need to… — Amy McTear Copy Share Image
“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a paradise… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The discovery that awaits us is that paradise is contained in the here and now.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“The entrance to the world is inside your mind; the entrance to the universe is inside your soul.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Paradise is not a place that awaits our arrival but a present we arrive at.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“If you tell a person about paradise, It becomes a dream. If you show a person paradise, It becomes a goal!” — Gabriel Madison Copy Share Image
“...Wherever we go we carry this burden of our personal consciousness and wherever we step we open it out over our heads like a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Together we reached that place. That place just beyond the stars on the outskirts of heaven. Euphoria consumed us, drowning us in its immense… — Gideon Rathbone Copy Share Image
“Night, the time I can stop worrying about my life and drift off into the abyss, free from conscious thought. It is my only… — Jaime Guerard Copy Share Image
“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The mysterious manner in which this growing sense of unity commingles with a sense of utter goodness is worth noting. It arises by no… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily hearing from… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for this loss.… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from the outside… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Low states are a like a poison to the psyche. Millions of people throughout the world take tranquillizers each day to combat depression, but… — Belsebuub Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found themselves in… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all. — Anuj Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state… — L.M.Blanchard Copy Share Image