Quotes by Paul Brunton

Paul Brunton

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.

Long

Night

Punishment

All methods and techniques – and of course all human beings who propound them – are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

Helping

Students

Technique

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

Doe

Existence

Lost

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Ego

Twists

Yield

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

Growth

Mindfulness

Morning

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

Gratitude

Men

Needs

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

Crush

Doors

Grace

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

Men

Pain

Successful

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

May

Mean

Principles

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.

Gratitude

Men

Song

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Doe

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Ends

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Faith

Focus

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Imagine

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Inspirational

Intelligent

Learning

Light

Long

Lost

Luxury

May

Mean

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Mind

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Quotes by Paul Brunton

Paul Brunton

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.

All methods and techniques – and of course all human beings who propound them – are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

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

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

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

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