Notebooks of Paul Brunton



They attend the church synagogue mosque most piously but the experience of the Deity as it really happens (not the ego-inflating joyous semi-mystic experience of popular religion and conventional mysticism) would frighten them away if described in advance. For it involves the disappearance of the ego into the Void.


-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6: Philosophy and Religion > # 119






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