The Wisdom of the Overself Quotes

“The man who has learnt the secret of creating new habits is able to control that which controls life.”
― Brunton,, Paul, The Wisdom Of The Overself

“In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it is only by an act of simple faith that he accepts the testimony of sense-experience.”
― Brunton,, Paul, The Wisdom Of The Overself

“The Hidden Observer. We are able to see things as lying outside each other and events as happening after each other only because there is in us something which itself is not in space or time. The consciousness of events would not be possible if the observing mind were itself involved in the same time-series. For the process of knowing these events involves the process of connecting them in thought. This in turn involves the working of a mind which cannot itself be one of the thoughts it thus connects. This mind must therefore transcend what it experiences and be outside the flow of our time altogether. It is only because the consciousness presupposed in experience is larger than the events that we are able to become aware of them at all. The fact that we are conscious of the changes which make up the stuff of time, is itself possible only because there is something hidden in us which is above change and beyond time. We”
― Brunton,, Paul, The Wisdom Of The Overself

“When their vision of God is no longer obscured by visions, when their thought of God is exempt from thoughts about God, they will be quite close to the goal.”
― Brunton,, Paul, The Wisdom Of The Overself