Aldous Huxley Quotes

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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 one?s self.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.