-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being...
Aldous HuxleyTag: philosophy gospel modern-classic theologically
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Aldous HuxleyTag: inspirational political-philosophy
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous HuxleyAll that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all. When it does anything more - when it tries too hard, for example, when it worries, when it becomes apprehensive about the future - it lowers the effectiveness of those forces and may even cause the devitalized body to fall ill. In my present state, awareness was not referred to as ego; it was, so to speak, on its own.
Aldous HuxleySpace was still there; but it had lost its predominance. The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.
Aldous HuxleySo in a certain sense disintegration may have its advantages. But of course it's dangerous, horribly dangerous. Suppose you couldn't get back, out of the chaos...
Aldous HuxleyThe fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.
Aldous HuxleyTag: mescaline
Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina)
Aldous HuxleyIf you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.
Aldous HuxleyThe effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail.
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