Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

Now I know I'm not broken, For the stars within my soul, Have just built constellations, To keep me feeling whole.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good, respond by continuing to live well.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.