Day by day
It is a brave struggle for freedom, a noble refusal to be the ego’s puppet or the animal-self’s victim, a fine resolve to win strength from weakness.
2.1.1.28Listen 1 Aug 2024The seeker who is fumbling for the right direction to take should welcome the help of a competent guide. But where such a guide is not personally forthcoming, the best substitute is a personal disciple of his or, failing that, a book written by him.
2.1.6.163Listen 2 Aug 2024Where ego merely believes, intuition definitely knows.
14.22.1.6Listen 3 Aug 2024When one knows that the Real always is and that all disappear back into it because there is nowhere else to go, then one ceases his terrific hurry to get somewhere and takes events more calmly. Patience comes with the fragrance of the eternal. One works at self-improvement all the same, but there need not be any desperate bother about the task. There is plenty of time. One can always do tomorrow what one needs to do today.
15.24.2.188Listen 4 Aug 2024The difference between life as we ordinarily know it and as it appears between incarnations is that here we have an apparent mixture of two worlds, the mental and the phenomenal, whereas there only the former exists.
6.9.1.62Listen 5 Aug 2024… I no longer admire a man because he has spent twenty years in the practice of yoga or the study of metaphysics; I admire him because he has brought compassion, tolerance, rectitude, and dependability into his conduct.
11.11.2.90, ExcerptListen 6 Aug 2024In the final accounting it is less what a man receives from education than what he receives from former lives that matters most. His education may help to bring it out and round it out but his innate stock will largely be the measure of his assets.
6.9.2.31Listen 7 Aug 2024One thing which he is likely to derive from the regular practice of meditation, when some proficiency is attained, is the sense of inner growth, a definite awareness that progress is being made.
4.4.1.375Listen 8 Aug 2024It is true that the aspiration for Overself is also a desire and must eventually also go. But it is useful and helpful in getting free from lesser or lower desires.
3.2.5.31Listen 9 Aug 2024The two paths must not be kept separate in practice, whatever they are in theory. The beginner will naturally put his emphasis on the Long Path, the proficient on the Short Path, but neither can afford to neglect one or the other path without perils and dangers or futilities and disappointments marking his way.
15.23.5.195Listen 10 Aug 2024We meet our destined experiences, for we have been given sealed orders at the beginning of our incarnation.
6.9.3.314Listen 11 Aug 2024The more the character is purified, the easier it is to practise meditation. The more the lower nature holds a man, the shorter will be the period of time in which he will be able to hold attention on the Overself.
5.6.1.88Listen 12 Aug 2024If he can lovingly recall those moments when thought became incandescently bright and feeling was lifted high above its ordinary self, meditation upon them will be especially fruitful and profitable.
15.23.6.181Listen 13 Aug 2024The worldling seeks to enjoy himself. Do not think that the truly spiritual man does not seek to enjoy himself too. The difference is that he does it in a better way, a wiser way.
2.1.1.35Listen 14 Aug 2024The power of the mind over flesh is proved convincingly even by such simple, everyday experiences as the vomiting caused by a horrible sight, the weeping caused by a tragic one, the loss of appetite or positive indigestion caused by bad news, and the headache caused by quarreling.
7.10.3.83Listen 15 Aug 2024No flesh food passes between my lips, and no smoke passes out from them.
8.12.6.132Listen 16 Aug 2024Such an attainment as philosophy proposes cannot be reached all at once. It must be approached through a series of preparatory steps. They will be slow in pace at first, but quicker later and sudden towards the end.
13.20.4.86Listen 17 Aug 2024It cannot come to those who live on the surface of things, for merely to discover and recognize its existence requires the deepest attentiveness and the strongest love. All the human forces must unite and look for this divine event.
14.22.5.19Listen 18 Aug 2024He need no longer seek things essential to his life or needful to his service; they themselves will come seeking him.
12.18.4.175Listen 19 Aug 2024The forces which move men and bring about events are not always to be found by rational analysis. There is another factor present which eludes such analysis. It may be called the evolutionary intent of the World-Mind.
16.26.4.171Listen 20 Aug 2024If men followed their intuition more there would be fewer tragedies that could have been prevented or regrets that could have been avoided.
14.22.1.89Listen 21 Aug 2024When seeking intuitional light upon a subject, the aspirant is advised to put his body in a recumbent position. This, passive as it is, will correlate with the passivity of mind that he should cultivate at such a time.
14.22.1.110Listen 22 Aug 2024This deep, inner, and indescribable feeling which makes him yearn for closeness to the higher power is neither a misguided feeling nor a vain one.
12.18.1.20Listen 23 Aug 2024Right reflection about past experiences, together with determination to take himself in hand, will lead the student to a more worthwhile future and smooth the path ahead.
4.4.4.241Listen 24 Aug 2024His consciousness is lifted up into another world of being; his little self is in communication with the Overself; his perception of truth is instantly translated into power to live that truth.
14.22.6.135Listen 25 Aug 2024With all his humility before the Overself, he will bear himself among his fellow human beings with serene self-assurance and speak with firm conviction of that which he knows.
14.22.2.65Listen 26 Aug 2024He sets up the ideal of meeting events, be they favourable or adverse, with equanimity.
15.24.2.36Listen 27 Aug 2024There are billions of forms and of creatures in the universes spread through space. They appear and vanish, they come and go, create and pass away, grow and decay, act and interact. This has been going on for immense periods of time; but in the thoughtful man’s mind there must arise the question, “To what end was is and shall be all this?”
2.1.2.211Listen 28 Aug 2024Healing is but a mere incident in the work of a sage. Such a one will always keep as his foremost purpose the opening of the spiritual heart of man.
7.10.5.136Listen 29 Aug 2024Grace has no favourites. Its working is characterized by its own mysterious laws. Do not expect it in return for faith alone, nor for just effort alone. Try both.
12.18.5.275Listen 30 Aug 2024As a wave sinks back into the sea, so the consciousness which passes out of the personal self sinks back into its higher individuality.
14.22.3.402Listen 31 Aug 2024
The notebooks are copyright © 1984-1989 The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
This site is run by Paul Brunton-stiftelsen · info@paulbruntondailynote.se