aldous huxley's quotes

Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma.
Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

love and bliss

We are born to be blissful, it is our birthright. But people are so foolish, they don't even claim their birthright. They become more interested in what others possess and they start running after those things. They never look within, they never search in their own house.

The intelligent person will begin his search from his inner being--that will be his first exploration--because unless I know what is within me how can I go on searching all over the world?--it is such a vast world. And those who have looked within have found it instantly, immediately. It is not a question of gradual progress, it is a sudden phenomenon, a sudden enlightenment.

The only antidote for the misuse of psychic powers is love; otherwise all power corrupts. It may be wealth, it may be prestige, it may be politics, or it may be psychic--it makes no difference. Whenever you feel powerful, if you don't have love as an antidote your power is going to become a calamity to others, a curse; because power blinds the eyes.

Love opens the eyes, love cleanses the eyes... your perception becomes clear.

I AM

I was regretting the past
And fearing the future…
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
“MY NAME IS I AM.” He paused.
I waited. He continued,
“When you live in the past,
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I was.
“When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I will be.
“When you live in this moment,
it is not hard.
I am here.
My name is I AM.”

i am nobody and i do not want to be somebody

Ego is a social phenomenon--it is society, it is not you. But it gives you a function in the society, a place in the hierarchy of the society. And if you remain satisfied with it, you will miss the whole opportunity of finding the real self.
Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable. Ego is hell. Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it.
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers
for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream
through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power,
politics; somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, jugglery,
but the dream remains the same: "I cannot tolerate being nobody."
And this is a miracle-- when you accept your nobodiness, when you are just
as ordinary as anybody else, when you don't ask for any recognition, when
you can exist as if you are not existing. To be absent is the miracle.

What is the meaning of life?

What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives.
Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to die having succeeded in your purpose
...to live
...to protect one's family
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
...to expand one's perception of the world

Ethical

...to express compassion
...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to give and receive love
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to serve others, or do good deeds
...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment
and atonement
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become God, or God-like
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there
is (i.e. God)
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land

Other

...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to die, or become a martyr
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even
life in general
...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
...to have fun
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
...to seek and find beauty
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible
end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them,
or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides
it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
...There is no meaning.