THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
Aldous Huxley
From the Introduction: "The Perennial Philosophy is the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, the divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being - the thing is immemorial and universal."
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"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart
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"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."
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"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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"The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame; like space it knows no boundaries, yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fulness." Yung-chia Ta-shih
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"The one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."
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"In spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already IS well."
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"Every thing, event or thought is a point of intersection between creature and Creator, between a more or less distant manifestation of God and a ray, so to speak, of the unmanifest Godhead; every thing, event or thought can therefore be made the doorway through which a soul may pass out of time into eternity."
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"Eternity, whose realization is the ultimate good, is a kingdom of heaven within. Thou art That."
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"The existence of sentient creatures has a goal and purpose which is ultimately the supreme good of every one of them."
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"To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy,….the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground."
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"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist
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"The ground in which the multifarious and time-bound psyche is rooted is a simple, timeless awareness. By making ourselves pure in heart and poor in spirit we can discover and be identified with this awareness. In the spirit we not only have, but are, the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground." Aldous Huxley
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa
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"How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self." Panchadasi
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"It is only by becoming Godlike that we can know God – and to become Godlike is to identify ourselves with the divine element which in fact constitutes our essential nature."
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"Where there is tranquillity, there is neither craving nor aversion, but a steady will to conform to the divine Tao or Logos on every level of existence and a steady awareness of the divine Suchness and what should be one's own relation to it."
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"Eternally, all creatures are God in God….So far as they are in God, they are the same life, the same essence, the same power, the same One, and nothing less." Suso
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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"God in time is grounded in the eternal now of the modeless Godhead. It is in the Godhead that things, lives and minds have their being; it is through God that they have their becoming."
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"The Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being is to discover the fact for himself, to find out Who he really is."
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"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta
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