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Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Paperback, 1960, Penguin Books) 5 stars

The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, …

The car had moved on; time was uncovering another manifestation of the eternal Suchness. ‘Within sameness there is difference. But that difference should be different from sameness is in no wise the intention of all the Buddhas. Their intention is both totality and differentiation.’ This bank of red and white geraniums, for example - it was entirely different from that stucco wall a hundred yards up the road. But the ‘is-ness’ of both was the same, the eternal quality of their transience was the same.

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Huxley, Aldous, ‘The Doors of Perception’, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Penguin Books, 1960, p51