Aldous Huxley Quotes

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.