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A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile QUOTES

A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile QUOTES

1 " The mysterious manner in which this growing sense of unity commingles with a sense of utter goodness is worth noting. It arises by no effort of mine; rather does it come to me out of I know not where. Harmony appears gradually and flows through my whole being like music. An infinite tenderness takes possession of me, smoothing away the harsh cynicism which a reiterated experience of human ingratitude and human treachery has driven deeply into my temperament. I feel the fundamental benignity of Nature despite the apparent manifestation of ferocity. Like the sounds of every instrument in an orchestra that is in tune, all things and all people seem to drop into the sweet relationship that subsists within the Great Mother's own heart. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

2 " 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 , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

3 " A half-hour, stolen from the day’s activities or the night’s rest, set apart for meditation in his own house, will in the end yield a good result. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

4 " The fruit of such meditations comes in the form of brief glimpses of the soul’s flower-like beauty. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

5 " We need these oases of calm in a world of storm. There are times when withdrawal to retreat for such a purpose is not desertion but wisdom, not weakness but strength. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

6 " 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 , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

7 " Although it comes only for a few minutes in most cases, its bloom endures and "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

8 " If the world stands bewildered and confused in the face of its troubles, it is partly because we Westerners have made a God of activity; we have yet to learn how to be, as we have already learnt how to do. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile

9 " O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. —Ralph Waldo Emerson. "

― Paul Brunton , A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile