Worry is spiritual short sight. . . Its cure is intelligent faith. - Paul Brunton

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Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

Paul Brunton

Worry is spiritual short sight. . . Its cure is intelligent faith.

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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.

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Study everything, join nothing.

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Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

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

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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.

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