...It's embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study...

...the best advice I can give to people...

 ...is to be a little kinder to each other...

- Aldous Huxley -

 ...The 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 ones self...

- Aldous Huxley -

 

...Maybe this world...

 ...is another planet’s hell...

- Aldous Huxley -

...People will come to love their oppression...

...to adore the technologies... 

...that undo their capacities to think...

- Aldous Huxley -

...After silence... 

...that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible...

...is music...

- Aldous Huxley -

...Experience is not what happens to a man... 

...it is what a man does with what happens to him...

- Aldous Huxley -

...There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving...

...and that’s your own self...

- Aldous Huxley -

...So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons...

...Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable...

from "Ends and Means" (1937)

Aldous Huxley

...Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness...


...It is generally the by-product of other activities...

- Aldous Huxley -