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Aldous Huxley
A novel following Will Farnaby, a journalist who awakens injured on the forbidden island of Pala after a sailing accident, beginning a journey of discovery in this mysterious place. Written in Huxley's characteristic philosophical and introspective style, blending psychological realism with speculative elements.
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A utopia functions as a meditation practice: Pala shows that selfhood, education, and death dissolve together when attention is finally trained right.
self-and-identity
If we renew, until they become a continuity, these moments of the knowledge of what we are not, we may find ourselves knowing who in fact we are.
IA-RC-027The last time we all came up here Dugald was still alive and Lakshmi wasn't yet too weak for a day's outing. Down, she tossed it out of the window.
IA-RC-129education-and-formation
She's unconsciously learning a lesson about herself—if she'd only stop giving herself suggestions to the contrary, her busy little mind is also Mind with a large M.
IA-RC-144The image was the thing, the words became the experience. Upwards, upwards through the silent emptiness—out of the hot plain, effortlessly, into the freshness of the mountains.
IA-RC-023faith-and-doubt
Perfect faith is defined as something that produces perfect peace of mind. But perfect peace of mind is something that practically nobody possesses.
IA-RC-088Down with the Wholly Identical and back to the Wholly Other! Back to Augustine, back to Luther—the world has been paying for the scars on his buttocks ever since.
IA-RC-090Illuminates
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