{"id":12594,"date":"2009-06-07T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/07\/not-a-joiner\/"},"modified":"2009-06-07T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:01:31","slug":"not-a-joiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/07\/not-a-joiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Joiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Paul Brunton, <em>Notebooks<\/em>, vol. II, p. 117:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">He is not a joiner because of several reasons: one of them is that joiners are too often too one-sided in approach, too limited in outlook, too exclusive to let truth in when it happens to appear in a sect different from his own. Another reason is that too frequently there is a tyranny from above, imitated by followers, which forbids any independent thought and does not tolerate any real search.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">On the other hand, going it alone does not guarantee safe or speedy arrival in the harbor of truth. It can just as easily leave one rudderless in the samsaric storm.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Life&#39;s a <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=define%3A+predicament\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">predicament<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Brunton, Notebooks, vol. II, p. 117: He is not a joiner because of several reasons: one of them is that joiners are too often too one-sided in approach, too limited in outlook, too exclusive to let truth in when it happens to appear in a sect different from his own. Another reason is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/07\/not-a-joiner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Joiner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-brunton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}