Aldous Huxley Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, Soul, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 13

• The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Meditation, Grace, Soul

• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

• The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Memorable, Omission

• Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Soul, Principles

  "The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell".

• Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, Contemplation, Divine

• This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, World, Flesh

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• [I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, Captains, Fate And Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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