Paul Brunton

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 #wisdom #inspirational

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#crisis #growth #intuition #intuition

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

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

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

#egotism #inspirational #sin #suffering #inspirational

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

#spirtuality #food

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

#imagination

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#nonviolence #vegetarianism #life

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#diet #food #health #diet

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

#crowd #depend #him #imagines #man

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

— Paul Brunton

#cure #intelligent #short #sight #spiritual