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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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"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 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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"Eternity, whose realization is the ultimate good, is a kingdom of heaven within. Thou art That."
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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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"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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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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"This identity out of the One into the One and with the One is the source and fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love." Meister Eckhart
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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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"In spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already IS well."
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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 divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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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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"The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow men."
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"Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds may be thought of as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy."
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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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"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 great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized.”
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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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"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart
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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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"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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"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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"The aim and purpose of human life is the unitive knowledge of God."
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