" The heavenly Kingdom can be made to come on earth; it cannot be be made to come in our imagination or in our discursive reasonings. And it cannot come even on earth, so long as we persist in living, not on earth as it is actually given, but as it appears to an ego obsessed by the idea of separateness, by cravings and abhorrences, by compensatory phantasies and by ready-made propositions about the nature of things. Our kingdom must go before God's can come. There must be a mortification, not of a nature, but of our fatal tendency to set up something of our own contriving in the place of nature. We have to get rid of our catalogue of likes and dislikes, of the verbal patterns to which we expect reality to conform, of the fancies into which we retire, when the facts do not come up to our expectation. "

― Aldous Huxley , The Devils of Loudun