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

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

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

One of the great purposes of the American nation is to shelter and guard the rights of all men and women to seek the conditions and the companions necessary for the inner search.

Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.

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

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.

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

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

To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty – while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.