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“To live well, one must love well.”
“The first lesson of mysticism: God is here.”
“Even the highest knowledge cannot save the man who has not loved.”
“Words form a bridge between the seer and the unseen.”
“In music, the soul touches the eternal.”
“The way of contemplation is the way of love.”
“To love God is to know God.”
“All knowledge worth having is participatory.”
“In silence, the soul finds its true language.”
“To live in the eternal is to live now.”
“Even the smallest act of love is a participation in the divine.”
“The mystic does not deny the world. The mystic sees through it.”
“In every moment, the eternal is offering itself.”
“To pay attention is to pray.”
“The contemplative is a citizen of two worlds.”
“In the depth of silence, the divine is revealed.”
“Knowledge without love is barren. Love without knowledge is blind.”
“The deepest reading is contemplative reading.”
“In stillness, the truth becomes audible.”
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