Paul Brunton Quotes

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Strength, Being Alone, Men

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• Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Men, Half

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives”, Larson Publication

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• Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

  Paul Brunton

  Morning, Growth, Mindfulness

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

  Paul Brunton

  Teacher, Real, Heart

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• It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

  Paul Brunton

  Heart, Sacrifice, Broken

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

  Paul Brunton

  Difficult Situations, Silence, Waiting

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• Your self is sacred; be true to it.

  Paul Brunton

  Self, Sacred, Being True

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• The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

  Paul Brunton

  Wisdom, Self, Understanding

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

  Paul Brunton

  Perseverance, Healing, Heart

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

  Paul Brunton

  Song, Gratitude, Men

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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• The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Silence, Meditation

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
  No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
  from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

  Paul Brunton

  Inner Peace, Important, Matter

  Paul Brunton, Wisdom's Goldenrod, Ltd (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Advanced contemplation. The peace within you”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Growth

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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• Study everything, join nothing.

  Paul Brunton

  Study

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

  Paul Brunton

  Imagine, Illusion, Truth Is

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

  Paul Brunton

  Trying, Masters

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• Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Light, Focus

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

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• Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

  Paul Brunton

  Night, Punishment, Long

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.

  Paul Brunton

  Gratitude, Men, Needs

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Suffering, World

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• The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

  Paul Brunton

  Heart, Quests, Ends

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The quest”

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• Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Art, Self

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• Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

  Paul Brunton

  Serenity, Taste, Silent

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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

  Paul Brunton

  Faith, Spiritual, Intelligent

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