' To Be at Peace '...

To be at peace means to be empty of all desires--a state the ordinary man often ridicules as inhuman or dismisses as impossible.

The spiritual seeker goes farther and understands better, so he desires to be without desire--but only to a limited extent.

Moreover, some of his desires may be hidden from consciousness.

Only the sage, by which I do not mean the saint, is completely free from desires because the empty void thus created is completely filled by the Overself.


-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 3:
Practise Detachment > # 262 Paul Brunton