Ultimate Reality (UR)
Life is trying to make us understand.
“Life is not trying to make people either happy or unhappy. It is trying to make them understand. Their happiness or unhappiness come as by-products of their success or failure in understanding.”
Paul Brunton
What is there to understand?
“All the experiences which life brings us are meaningful. Let us use our intelligence and learn these meanings. For life is trying to develop that intelligence in us until she can make us aware of the highest meaning of all—the Soul.”
The courage of the thoughtful person
“The most important questions which a man can ask himself—What he is and What he is here for—must be answered before his life finds its proper course.”
“There are billions of forms and of creatures in the universes spread through space. They appear and vanish, they come and go, create and pass away, grow and decay, act and interact. This has been going on for immense periods of time; but in the thoughtful man’s mind there must arise the question, ‘To what end was is and shall be all this?’”
“Take the beginning and the end of the Greek alphabet and suppose that the first letter, Alpha, is the first faint stirrings of the universe. And take the last letter, Omega, to be the last vanishing trace of that universe. Imagine that Alpha is the reincarnation of the previous Omega, and you will have a key to what is really happening… But what is this mysterious invisible intangible source whence all this is derived and into which all this passes?”
“Something more is needed than what books or even gurus can give him. This can only be found within himself. The courage needed for such a standpoint must also be found, and can be, within himself.”
“Life is the real tutor; experience is the principal education. The voice of truth is within.”
“When he sees the meaning of life, he cannot help but give it his acceptance. Circumstances previously rebelled against now fit into a reasonable place in the pattern of things.”
Paul Brunton