' The Long Path '...

The Long Path gives many benefits and bestows many virtues but it does not give the vision of truth, the realization of the Overself, nor does it bestow Grace. For these things we must turn to the Short Path.


-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 2: Pitfalls and Limitations > # 156
Paul Brunton

The moment for departure from the Long Path is signaled by the full realization that all that he has really gained from practising its disciplines is only the practice itself, not the newer consciousness to which they were supposed to lead him.


-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 4: The Changeover To the Short Path > # 134
Paul Brunton