Samuel R. G. Finlayson

“Do not strive to seek after the true,” writes a Zen master, “only cease to cherish opinions.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties. J. P. de Caussade”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“Christianity has remained a religion in which the pure Perennial Philosophy has been overlaid, now more, now less, by an idolatrous preoccupation with events and things in time—events and things regarded not merely as useful means, but as ends, intrinsically sacred and indeed divine.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the official religion of the politicians and war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial or ideological idolatry, having, as its inevitable corollaries, the notions of Herrenvolk and “the lesser breeds without the Law.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West