"The divine Ground of all existence is a spiritual Absolute, ineffable in terms of discursive thought, but (in certain circumstances) susceptible to being directly experienced and realized by the human being. This Absolute is the God-without-form of Hindu and Christian mystical phraseology. The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitve knowledge with the divine Ground--the knowledge that can come only to those who are prepared to 'die to self' and so make room, as it were, for God."
-- Aldous Huxley,
The Perennial Philosophy, p. 21.
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