Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.
Aldous HuxleyIf only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
Aldous HuxleyThe vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Aldous HuxleyThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous HuxleyThe 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 oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.
Aldous Huxley