"The only kind of religion, so far as I can see, that is compatible with scientific thought is a religion of mystical experience---not a Nirvana outside the world but within it . . . The ethical corollary of mystical experience (which involves a sense of solidarity with all beings) is compassion and ultimately ahimsa, with the paradoxical combination of working for the cause of goodness and at the same time obeying the injunction of Jesus (and all mystics) 'Judge not that ye be not judged.' Mystical experience is no more incompatible with science than aesthetic experience. Incompatibility arises when metaphysical interpretations are made."
Aldous Huxley
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