Top 60 Paul Brunton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.”

— Paul Brunton

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2. “Study everything, join nothing.”

— Paul Brunton

3. “When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.”

— Paul Brunton

4. “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

5. “Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.”

— Paul Brunton

6. “This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.”

— Paul Brunton

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

— Paul Brunton

8. “The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.”

— Paul Brunton

9. “Your self is sacred; be true to it.”

— Paul Brunton

10. “Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.”

— Paul Brunton

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

— Paul Brunton

12. “Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.”

— Paul Brunton

13. “He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.”

— Paul Brunton

14. “Outwardly one’s life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.”

— Paul Brunton

15. “Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.”

— Paul Brunton

16. “It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.”

— Paul Brunton

17. “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

18. “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.”

— Paul Brunton

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19. “Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.”

— Paul Brunton

20. “Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.”

— Paul Brunton

21. “The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus blinding him to the fact that the self is still there behind all his improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?”

— Paul Brunton

22. “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

23. “Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.”

— Paul Brunton

24. “You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.”

— Paul Brunton

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

— Paul Brunton

26. “The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.”

— Paul Brunton

27. “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

28. “Saint John of the Cross gave the following advice: “Enter into your heart and labour in the presence of God who is always present there to help you. Fix your loving attention upon Him without any desire to feel or hear anything of God.”

— Paul Brunton

29. “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.”

— Paul Brunton

30. “Whoever wants the “I” to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego’s fascination with its own image.”

— Paul Brunton

31. “The world is our school for spiritual discovery.”

— Paul Brunton

32. “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.”

— Paul Brunton

33. “While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.”

— Paul Brunton

34. “We must first create within ourselves a true humility before we can know the liberating truth. We.”

— Paul Brunton

35. “The tranquil passivity he sets out to reach, will eventually deepen and deepen until a point is felt where thinking is still and the mind emptied. Into this inner silence there enters, we know not how, the Overself’s godlike consciousness.”

— Paul Brunton

36. “The first is the art of mind-stilling, of emptying consciousness of every thought and form whatsoever. This is mysticism or Yoga.”

— Paul Brunton

37. “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.”

— Paul Brunton

38. “Pursue the enquiry ‘Who am I?’ relentlessly. Analyse your entire personality. Try to find out where the I-thought begins. Go on with your meditations. Keep turning your attention within. One day the wheel of thought will slow down and an intuition will mysteriously arise. Follow that intuition, let your thinking stop, and it will eventually lead you to the goal.”

— Paul Brunton

39. “Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.”

— Paul Brunton

40. “The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.”

— Paul Brunton

41. “What the first Seer found and recorded thousands of years ago, the last Seer finds and agrees with today. But what the first scientist of the nineteenth century found and recorded, the last scientist of today laughs at and flings aside. The.”

— Paul Brunton

42. “Those who spend sufficient time on the mystical quest, and with sufficient keenness and guidance, find it infinitely inspiring because it links them – however remotely weakly and momentarily – with an infinite power, an infinite wisdom, an infinite goodness.”

— Paul Brunton

43. “War is still going on in the hearts and minds of men. This is where it must first be stopped, for it is there that the explosives, whether they later take the form of small bullets or tremendously destructive atom bombs, begin their existence.”

— Paul Brunton

44. “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.”

— Paul Brunton

45. “Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal’s. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.”

— Paul Brunton

46. “The key to the whole problem of this ancient Mystery-Institution was given by Plutarch when he wrote: ‘At the moment of death the soul experiences the same impressions as those who are initiated into the great Mysteries.’ Scholars.”

— Paul Brunton

47. “The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.”

— Paul Brunton

48. “They find man a paradoxical being; one capable of descent into the darkest abysses of evil, and yet equally capable of ascent to the sublimest heights of nobility. They.”

— Paul Brunton

49. “So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In.”

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50. “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