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The mixture of deplorable characters and homiletic essays is deliberately artificial, packed with wit, rarely dull. Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation...
Delicate though this problem may be, it is subsidiary to the main problem: how to project 1943's activity into peacetime, how to convert 1943's volume of output into peacefully useful goods-in short, again, what are the economic substitutes for war? But that problem could not...
> That politicians need periods of retreat for contemplation and reflection upon the ultimate reasons for existence.
That still left him time for contemplation, and he had several subjects worth reviewing. There was, for one, the consideration that as a forthright critic of Churchill's war prosecution he has for two years served as whipping boy for the Prime Minister's parliamentary tempers, receiving rebukes...
The person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi...