" Simply to Be "...

The time will come when you will have to turn your back upon the Long Path in order to give full attention, the full energy and the full time, to the Short Path.

For with this comes a new era when the whole concern is not with the ego, not with its improvement or betterment, but with the divine itself alone-

not with the surface consciousness and all its little changes but with the very depths, the diviner depths where reality abides.

At this point seek only the Higher Self, live only with positive thought, stay only for as long as you can with the holy silence within,

feel only that inner stillness which belongs to the essence of consciousness.

Henceforth you are not to become this or that, not to gather the various virtues, but simply to be.

For this you do not have to strive, you do not have to think, you do not have to work with any form of yoga, with any method of meditation.


-Paul Brunton