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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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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"The ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence."
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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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 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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"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart
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"The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart
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"The aim and purpose of human life is the unitive knowledge of God."
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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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“The great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized.”
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"Take note of this fundamental truth. Everything that works in nature and creature….is the working of God in nature and creature." William Law
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"What would learning do without love? It would puff up. And love without learning? It would go astray." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam
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"In spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already IS well."
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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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"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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"Eternity, whose realization is the ultimate good, is a kingdom of heaven within. Thou art That."
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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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"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 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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"Only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it [the mind] of all fear."
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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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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"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."
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