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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"That Self who is free from impurities, from old age and death, from grief and thirst and hunger, whose desire is true and whose desires come true – that Self is to be sought after and enquired about, that Self is to be realized." The Chandogya Upanishad
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"The Dharma-body (the Absolute) of all the Buddhas enters into my own being. And my own being is found in union with theirs." Yung-chia Ta-shih
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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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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions."
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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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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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"The goal of creation is the return of all sentient beings out of separateness and that infatuating urge-to-separateness which results in suffering, through unitive knowledge, into the wholeness of eternal Reality."
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"The Perennial Philosophy teaches that it is desirable and indeed necessary to know the spiritual Ground of things, not only within the soul, but also outside in the world and beyond world and soul, in its transcendent otherness."
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"The aim and purpose of human life is the unitive knowledge of God."
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"Science and technology could not exist unless we had faith in the reliability of the universe."
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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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"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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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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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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"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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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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"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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"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart
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"It is because we don't know Who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal Ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been."
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"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo
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"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."
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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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