Paul Brunton: The Religious Urge/Reverential Life

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Volume Twelve

Larson, 1988

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“The essence of religion does not consist in dogma and ritual but in faith in a higher power, worship of that higher power, and moral purification to come closer to it.”

– Paul Brunton

“True prayer…is nothing less than making a connection – however loose, ill-fitting, and intermittent it be – with the life force within the universe.”

This volume stresses the importance of veneration for the source of Life at all levels of human development.

The Religious Urge distinguishes the heart’s ineradicable religious instinct from traditional religious forms, and clarifies the services and disservices of institutional religion.

The Reverential Life gives an individualized, practical approach to honest communion with the Sacred through intelligent prayer, rational devotion, and informed, mature humility.

This twelfth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton answers such basic questions as “What is prayer?”, “How does it work?”, “How should I pray?”, “To whom or what should I pray?”, “How do prayer and meditation differ?”, “What is Grace?”