The Secret Path Quotes

“The study of the self will one day prove the master-key to open all philosophical doors, all scientific conundrums, all life’s locked problems. Self is the ultimate—it is the first thing we know as babes; it will be the last thing we shall know as sages. The greatest certainty in knowledge comes only in the sphere of self. We”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“When we moderns are told that God is not a mere word to be argued and debated about but a state of consciousness we can realise here and now in the flesh, we raise our eyebrows; when some spiritual Seer quietly tells us that there are God-knowing men living among us now, we significantly tap our foreheads. When, further, we are assured that we bear the divine within our breasts and that divinity constitutes our true selfhood, we smile in a superior way. Yet this is not theory nor is it sentiment; it is an open and patent fact to people who have gone some way in spiritual percipiency. Before”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“If this interior experience was possible in the twentieth century b.c. it is also possible in the twentieth century a.d. The fundamental nature of man has not changed during the interval.”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“They find man a paradoxical being; one capable of descent into the darkest abysses of evil, and yet equally capable of ascent to the sublimest heights of nobility. They”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“What the first Seer found and recorded thousands of years ago, the last Seer finds and agrees with today. But what the first scientist of the nineteenth century found and recorded, the last scientist of today laughs at and flings aside. The”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“The key to the whole problem of this ancient Mystery-Institution was given by Plutarch when he wrote: ‘At the moment of death the soul experiences the same impressions as those who are initiated into the great Mysteries.’ Scholars”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“Throughout the verbal traditions handed down by our earlier forefathers, and shining through the literature of the world, far back as the first rude manuscripts of Oriental peoples and up to the newest product of the printer’s press of this year of grace, there has been a strange yet recurring allusion to another self within man. It does not matter what name was given to this mysterious self, whether it be called soul or breath, spirit or ghost. There is, indeed, no other doctrine in the world which possesses so far-flung an intellectual ancestry as this. Everybody”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“During the closing decades of the eighteenth century, and the opening decades of the nineteenth, a constellation of literary and scientific luminaries appeared in the European sky which indicated and inaugurated the Age of Reason. God was dethroned and Reason became the throned sovereign of philosophy. Now science receives our highest worship. The scientist is the pope of today and sits in the Vatican of world authority. We”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“We must first create within ourselves a true humility before we can know the liberating truth. We”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“This internal exploration is well worth while. For there is something within the mind of man and beast, something that is neither intellect nor feeling, but deeper than both, to which the name of intuition, may fitly be given. When science can truly explain why a horse will take its drunken rider or driver for miles through the dark and find its own way home; why field-mice seal up their holes before the cold weather comes; why sheep move away to the lee side of a mountain before severe storms; when it can tell us what warns the tortoise to retire to rest and refuge before every shower of rain; and when it can really explain who guides a vulture many miles distant to the dead body of an animal, we may then learn that intuition is sometimes a better guide than intellect.”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century

“Disraeli’s perceptive remark that: ‘The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.’ The”
― Paul Brunton, The Secret Path: Meditation Teachings from One of the Greatest Spiritual Explorers of the Twentieth Century