The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and gradual growth of that understanding, which begins a spiritual awakening. The finding of God is coming to one's self.


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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Pain was a fascinating horror
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
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Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
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A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
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If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
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Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
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