"When any community is devoted to the vitality of the Center of and beyond each individual, there will be no danger of damaging consensus, for the particular 'color' of the Center as it expresses itself through each personality will contribute richness to the whole. This will bring relatedness and cooperation." Elizabeth Boyden Howes, Jungian analyst, written for this anthology
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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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"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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"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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"Science and technology could not exist unless we had faith in the reliability of the universe."
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"Build yourself a spiritual cell, which you can always take with you, and that is the cell of true self-knowledge; you will find there the knowledge of God's goodness to you." St. Catherine of Siena
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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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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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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 one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."
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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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"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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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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"The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart
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"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist
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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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"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."
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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 his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa
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