Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton

---

It is an error to say that mysticism and metaphysics are on equal levels. The first is more important than the second. There is no way to realize the Self which does not include going inside consciousness. Thinking, however metaphysical, cannot do it. Action, however self-denying, cannot do it. It must be found inside in the heart. The other things are needful but secondary. Without the inner consciousness, action becomes at best humanitarianism and thinking a photographic copy of the Real.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 1 : Mystical Life in The Modern World > # 66