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To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

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Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

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I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves,...more

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All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant...more

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... it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so.“Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get ou...more

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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense u...more

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So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages w...more

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The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the r...more

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The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided bu...more

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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

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For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-changing mind, laugh as its sunlit ripples lap its skin...more