# Quote — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

> The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern."

- Author: [Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md)
- Book: [The Doors of Perception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/the-doors-of-perception.md)
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> What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.

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> The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

p. 191 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/the-doors-of-perception/the-man-who-comes.md)

> I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation — the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

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