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 discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo
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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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"For though she sink all sinking in the oneness of divinity, she never touches bottom. For it is of the very essence of the soul that she is powerless to plumb the depths of her creator. And here one cannot speak of the soul any more, for she has lost her nature yonder in the oneness of divine essence. There she is no more called soul, but is called immeasurable being." Meister Eckhart
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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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"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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"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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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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"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa
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"Life is God living and working in the soul." William Law
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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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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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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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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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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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"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."
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"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence."
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