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The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment

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By Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith (introduction) — 2013

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality." In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. See more...

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Rumi and His Friends: Stories of the Lovers of God Excerpts from the Manaqib al-'Arifin of Aflaki

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