Aldous Huxley
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There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively.
But we build bandstands and factories on them. Deliberately—
to put a stop to the quietness. ... All the thoughts, all
the preoccupations in my head — round and round, continually
What's it for? What's it all for? To put an end to the quiet,
to break it up and disperse it, to pretend at any
cost that it isn't there.
Ah, but it is; it is there, in spite of everything,at the back
of everything. Lying awake at night— not restlessly, but serenely,
waiting for sleep — the quiet
re-establishes itself, piece by piece; all the broken bits...
we've been so busily dispersing all day long.
It re-establishes itself, an inward quiet, like the outward
quiet of grass and trees. It fills one, it grows — a crystal
quiet, a growing, expanding crystal. It grows, it becomes
more perfect; it is beautiful and terrifying ...
For one's
alone in the crystal, and there's no support from the outside,
there is nothing external and important, nothing external
and trivial to pull oneself up by or stand on ... There is
nothing to laugh at or feel enthusiast about. But the quiet
grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably. And at last you
are conscious of something approaching; it is almost a faint
sound of footsteps.
Something inexpressively lovely and
wonderful advances through the crystal, nearer, nearer.
And, oh, inexpressively terrifying. For if it were to touch
you, if it were to seize you and engulf you, you'd die;
all the regular, habitual daily part of you would die ....
one would have to begin living arduously in the quiet,
arduously in some strange, unheard of manner. On religion
JOHN SOKOLOFF - Murza
In order to justify their behavior, they turn their theories
into dogmas, their bylaws into First Principles, their
political bosses into Gods and all those who disagree with
them into incarnate devils. This idolatrous transformation
of the relative into the Absolute and the all too human into
the Divine, makes it possible for them to indulge their ugliest
passions with a clear conscience and in the certainty that
they are working for the Highest Good. And when the current
beliefs come, in their turn, to look silly, a new set will
be invented, so that the immemorial madness may continue to wear
its customary mask of legality, idealism, and true religion.
On Evil
Aldous Huxely
If only it were all so simple!If only there were evil
people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from
the rest of us and destroy them.But the line dividing
good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
On spirituality
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can
not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual
quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless
I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others.
For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost
shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Felix Adler
Love quotes
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows
into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom
for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.
To see reality not as we expect it to be but as it is is
to see that unless we live for each other and in and through
each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that
there can really be life only where there really is, in just
this sense, love.
Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat
Love all of God's creation, the whole of it and every grain
of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light.
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery
in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to
comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last
to love the world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Dostoyevski
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