"O nobly born, let not thy mind be distracted." That was the problem — to remain undistracted. Undistracted by the memory of past sins, by imagined pleasure, by the bitter aftertaste of old wrongs and humiliations, by all the fears and hates and cravings that ordinarily eclipse the Light. Copy quote Mistake in quote? Share 2 comments Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of PerceptionDesiresFearMistakesThoughtsLife Quotes
What is important is less the reason for the experience than the experience itself. Copy quote Mistake in quote? Share Leave a comment Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of PerceptionExperienceReasonsCognitionPerception
More even than the chair, though less perhaps than those wholly supernatural flowers, the folds of my gray flannel trousers were charged with "is-ness." To what they owed this privileged status, I cannot say. Is it, perhaps, because the forms of folded drapery are so strange and dramatic that they catch the eye and in this way force the miraculous fact of sheer existence upon the attention? Who knows?Читать далее » Copy quote Mistake in quote? Share Leave a comment Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception