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We understand correctly our relation to external possessions like chairs and carpets, but not to possessions like hands and thoughts. Here our understanding becomes confused. Our habitual speech betrays this. We say, “I am hurt” when it is really the body that is hurt, or “I am pleased” when a thought of pleasure arises within us. In the first case the body still remains an object of our experience, despite its closeness. In the second case, thinking is a function performed by us. Both are to be distinguished from our being, however interwoven with our activity.

Paul Brunton

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So long as we keep ourselves focused wholly in the physical world, thoughts such as these may be read but will not reach our minds.

Paul Brunton

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The realized man lives on the level of the absolutes; his wisdom, love and courage are complete, there is nothing relative about him. Therefore he must prove himself by tests more stringent, undergo trials more demanding.

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When he believes he is communing with God he is actually communing with his own inner reality. The enlightenment that seems to come from outside actually comes from inside himself.

Paul Brunton

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The art of meditation is accomplished in two progressive stages: first, mental concentration; second, mental relaxation. The first is positive, the second is passive.

Paul Brunton

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His work is to prepare the ground and sow the seed; Nature will do the rest. That is to say, he is to arrange the favourable physical circumstances and the proper psychological concentration in which inspiration can most easily be born.

Paul Brunton

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The wise stand out,

because they see themselves as part of the Whole.

They shine,

because they don't want to impress.

They achieve great things,

because they don't look for recognition.

Their wisdom is contained in what they are,

not their opinions.

— Lao Tzu

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The silent secret part of the self is forever there, forever asking a little surrender of attention. But few give it.

Paul Brunton

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The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, of anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, rarely come, quickly gone.

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 Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” What did he mean? Consider the minds of children in whom the ego is but little developed. How egoless they are. How spontaneous and immediate is their knowledge of the world around them.

Paul Brunton

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The nature and functions of man are reflected in miniature in the cells which compose his body, while he himself reflects those of the Universal Mind in which he is similar to the cell.

Paul Brunton

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Because we draw our very life from the spiritual principle within us, we can only ignore the truth that this principle exists but can never lose its reality.

Paul Brunton

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All things and beings flow forth from the illimitable Power, all derive their consciousness from It. Nor may we stop with this acknowledgment. For they derive whatsoever they have of intelligence from It, too. Is it not a grand thought, full of promise and hope, that in the gradual progression of this intelligence from minute cells to celestial beings, it passes upward through man, enabling him in time to attain and know his own Divinity?

Paul Brunton

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Your desire just happens to you along with its fulfilment, or non-fulfilment. You can change neither. You may believe that you exert yourself, strive and struggle. Again, it all merely happens, including the fruits of the work. Nothing is by you and for you.

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 the divine presence is dwelling at the core of his mind, then the divine bliss, peace, and strength are dwelling at the core of his mind too. Why then should he let outward troubles rob him of the chance to share them?

Paul Brunton

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“Most people do not see their beliefs. Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see. This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion.”

― Matt Kahn

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Stay without ambition,

without the least desire,

exposed, vulnerable, unprotected,

uncertain and alone,

completely open to

and welcoming life

as it happens...

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj