Paul Brunton Quotes

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

I've never been a big fan of me, me, me.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.