"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. Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception desires fear mistakes thoughts life quotes
What is important is less the reason for the experience than the experience itself. Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception experience reasons cognition perception
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? Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception