The Library
... This earth is not our true home. We belong elsewhere, nearer to God's perfection, beauty, harmony.
7.10.1.8,The psychological causes of disease have only recently come under investigation by the strict methods of modern science, but the general fact of their existence was known thousands of years ago. Plato, for instance, said: This is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the inner being from the body.”
7.10.1.23Listen The animal part of us is doomed to oblivion, the spiritual part is ageless and deathless. The physical body belongs to the animal part. All attempts to perpetuate it must fail and arise from confusing the two levels of being, the transient and the eternal.
7.10.1.36Listen … We get just the kind of karma whose silent instruction is needed at the time…
7.10.1.38,Listen If he can succeed in refusing to identify himself with the suffering body, he will not suffer with it.
7.10.1.62Listen Even in the midst of bodily sufferings, he will still keep and not lose this beautiful serenity of mind. And he is able to do so precisely because he is able to differentiate the flesh from the mind. Inevitably, it must counteract, even though it may not obliterate, the body's pain.
7.10.1.77Listen
4 Mar 2011
5 Sep 2019
20 Apr 2017
29 Feb 2020
18 Jul 2024
13 Oct 2014
The notebooks are copyright © 1984-1989 The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
This site is run by Paul Brunton-stiftelsen · info@paulbruntondailynote.se