Aldous Huxley
English writer, philosopher, and one of the great literary explorers of the perennial philosophy and the chemistry of consciousness in the twentieth century. Born in 1894 to one of the most distinguished intellectual families in England, he authored more than fifty books — novels (Brave New World, Island), essays (The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell), and his late masterpiece The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which gathered the testimony of mystics from every world tradition into a single anthology. His mescaline experiments in the 1950s pioneered the modern psychedelic movement; his lifelong study of Vedanta, Buddhism, and Christian mysticism made him one of the West's most credible bridges to the contemplative East. He died in Los Angeles in 1963, on the same day as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Quotes by Aldous Huxley
106 quotes“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”
“Acceptance of the inevitable is the beginning of wisdom.”
“In the contemplative life, all rights are dropped.”
“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
“The Eternal is in the present moment.”
“Solitude is the place where the ego dissolves.”
“To be silent is to be wise.”
“The contemplative knows by becoming.”
“There is no bridge between metaphysical theory and contemplative experience.”
“Each one of us is a co-creator of reality.”
“You can do nothing about the world. You can do everything about yourself.”
“Beauty is a moment in time, but contemplation makes it eternal.”
“Religious experience is the experience of the divine.”
“The sound of perfect silence is heard only in the soul.”
“Contemplation is to know God in the highest sense.”
“There is no difference between knowledge of the Self and the highest contemplation.”
“Liberation is awareness of the divine ground.”
“True knowledge is participatory.”
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