Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton

---

The excessively critical attitude which seeks to find a flaw in a holy man and soon succeeds is as foolish as the excessively devout attitude which pronounces him perfect and continuously faultless. The hostility of the one leads to imbalance; the naïveté of the other leads to expectancy. The holy man is still a man subject to the limitations of his species.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 318