Perennial Philosophy
Quotes, Passages and Commentary
Chapters VII and X: Truth, Grace and Free Will
Page: 141
“Man must live in time in order to advance into eternity…he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate selfhood; he must do battle with the lower self in order that he may become identified with that higher Self within him…and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground.”
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“All our goodness is a loan: God is the owner. God works and his work is God.”
— St. John of the Cross
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“Shun asked Cheng saying, Can one get Dao so as to have it for oneself?
Your very body, replied Cheng, is not your own. How could Dao be?
If my body, said Shun, is not my own pray whose is it?
It is the delegated image of God, replied Cheng. Your life is not your own. It is the delegated harmony of God. Your individuality is not your own. It is the delegated adaptability of God”.
— Zhuangzi
Page: 175
“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.”
–Eckhart
The Perennial Philosophy: by Aldous Huxley
HarperCollins Publ. 1944