ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΛΒ The Mountaineer in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“All skillfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Strain forth thine Intelligence, O man, O worthy one, O chosen of IT, to apprehend the discourse of THE MASTER; for thus thy reason shall at last break down, as the fetter is struck from a slave’s throat.”
  2. “What man is at ease in his Inn? Get out.”
  3. “Consciousness is a symptom of disease.”
  4. “Love destroyeth self, uniting self with that which is not-self, so that Love breedeth All and None in One.”
  5. “Be not caught within that web, O child of Freedom! Be not entangled in the universal lie, O child of Truth!”