Quotes
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Paul Brunton

"Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege."

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

Paul Brunton

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“Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.”
“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”
“You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life”

Source : Song: Holding Out For A Hero
“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
“It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.”
“Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.”
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think”

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