Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.