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Paul Brunton was a British journalist and writer known for his interest in Eastern philosophy and mysticism. His works, such as 'A Search in Secret India' and 'The Quest of the Overself', had a profound impact on the Western world in the mid-20th century.

Famous Paul Brunton Quotes

“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”

Inspirational Spiritual Growth Situation Offers Profit Spiritual Growth

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

“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.”

Men Spiritual Half Materials Miserable Feds Restless Starving Other Half Unsatisfied Bad Food

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives

“Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.”

Men Should Has Beens Spiritual Ought Activity Faults Contrary Recognition Beneficial Preoccupation

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat

“Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.”

Spiritual Faith Worry Sky Sight Intelligent Cures

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“No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.”

Men Way Mean Soul Spiritual Forget Temporary Forget It Spiritual Experience

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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.”

“When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.”

Spiritual Becoming Achievement Seeking Burden Heavy Complicated Doctrine Artificial Unnecessary Beginners Esoteric

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“The world is our school for spiritual discovery.”

World School Spiritual Spirituality Discovery Passionate

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

“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.”