Paul Brunton Quotes

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.

Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.