Paul Brunton

Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal’s. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.

Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal’s. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.

– Paul Brunton –

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

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