It Is The Mark Of The Mind

Every Incarnation That We Remember Must Increase Our Comprehension Of Ourselves As Who We Are.

If One Had To Worry About One's Actions In Respect Of Other People's Ideas, One Might As Well Be Buried Alive In An Antheap Or Married To An Ambitious Violinist. Whether That Man Is The Prime Minister, Modifying His Opinions To Catch Votes, Or A Bourgeois In Terror Lest Some Harmless Act Should Be Misunderstood And Outrage Some Petty Convention, That Man Is An Inferior Man And I Do Not Want To Have Anything To Do With Him Any More Than I Want To Eat Canned Salmon.

Your Friends Will Notice At Once That Glib Vacuities Fail To Impress, And Hate You, And Tell Lies About You. It's Worth It.

Sit Still. Stop Thinking. Shut Up. Get Out! The First Two Of These Instructions Comprise The Whole Of The Technique Of Yoga. The Last Two Are Of A Sublimity Which It Would Be Improper To Expound In This Present Elementary Stage.

I Am Inclined To Agree With The Head Master Of Eton That Pæderastic Passions Among Schoolboys 'do No Harm'; Further, I Think Them The Only Redeeming Feature Of Sexual Life At Public Schools.