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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 one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."
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"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great
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"This identity out of the One into the One and with the One is the source and fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love." Meister Eckhart
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"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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"The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions."
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"The Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being is to discover the fact for himself, to find out Who he really is."
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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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"Only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it [the mind] of all fear."
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"Science and technology could not exist unless we had faith in the reliability of the universe."
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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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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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"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta
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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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"That Self who is free from impurities, from old age and death, from grief and thirst and hunger, whose desire is true and whose desires come true – that Self is to be sought after and enquired about, that Self is to be realized." The Chandogya Upanishad
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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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"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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"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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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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"What would learning do without love? It would puff up. And love without learning? It would go astray." St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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