Top 23 The Perennial Philosophy Quotes
#1. The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.
Ken Wilber
#2. Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
Aldous Huxley
#3. Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind
an effort to bring awareness to bear on all aspects of life. It is, in other words, part of what has been called the perennial philosophy.
Ken Wilber
#4. Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness.
Stacy Schiff
#5. The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
Aldous Huxley
#6. I think waking up in the middle of the night and seeing stuff in the dark and thinking it is something scary or demonic. When you first wake up and you see things and you're eyes aren't open and things aren't what they seem. That happened to me like three weeks ago!
Daniel Jacobs
#7. I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
Warsan Shire
#8. An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Mark Van Doren
#9. The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.
Frithjof Schuon
#10. I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
John Legend
#11. She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#12. When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.
China Anne McClain
#13. Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Paul Tillich
#15. I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.
Terry Goodkind
#16. I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire.
Tana French
#17. My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
Jennie Garth
#18. The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
Publilius Syrus
#19. Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.
Frithjof Schuon
#20. I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.
Tyler Oakley
#21. What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
David Sedaris
#22. To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Gore Vidal
#23. Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
Jim Hightower
