The deceit of existence...

So long as a man is a stranger to his own divine soul, so long has he not even begun to live.

All that he does is to exist.

In this matter most men deceive themselves.

For they take comfort in the thought that this attitude of indifference, being a common one, must also be a true one.

They feel that they cannot go far wrong if they think and behave as so many other men think and behave.

Such ideas are the grossest self-deceptions.

When the hour of calamity comes, they find out how empty is this comfort, how isolated they really are in their spiritual helplessness.



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Chapter 1: What the Quest Is > # 151
Paul Brunton