Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before,…

Paul Brunton
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Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. ✨ Paul Brunton (1987). The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives, Larson Publication
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