Paul Brunton Quotes

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Listen to the sound of silence.

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Real action is in silent moments.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.