Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton

---

If there were no possibility of finding one's way from this body-prisoned, time-encased condition, then no one would ever have become self-realized, and all preaching of religion and teaching of philosophy would have been futile. But we know from history and biography that such achievement has been experienced in all parts of the world and in all centuries, so that no one should give up hope.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 5 : Self-Development > # 170