Aldous Huxley Spiritual Quotes — Page 4

Novelist, Essayist

Spiritual

“Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”

Men Self Earth

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Aldous Huxley

Novelist, Essayist

Spiritual

“What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!”

Looks Wonder Divine

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Spiritual

“In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.”

Spiritual Matter

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Spiritual

“Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.”

Prayer Work

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Spiritual

“The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions”

World Self Action

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Spiritual

“Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.”

May Action Contemplation

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Spiritual

“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”

Soul Divine Contemplation

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Spiritual

“For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.”

World Buddhism Atheism

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Spiritual

“I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.”

Believe Mean Profound

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Spiritual

“Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.”

Thinking Animal Drinking

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Spiritual

“Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.”

Heaven Opposites Mystical Experiences

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Spiritual

“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.”

Eye Order Distance

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Aldous Huxley — Spiritual Quotes

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