I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“My travels took me to Ceylon, where I devoted myself to Yoga.” [via, also]

Consider also:

  1. “I took a bungalow at Kandy and was steered through the beginnings of the art. Yoga may be taught in eight words. ‘Sit still! Stop thinking! Shut up! Get out!’ It is the learning that is difficult.”
  2. The Gnostic
  3. “My success with Yoga was so great that it became dangerous. For my own good I left it alone for two years, departing from Ceylon and going to India.”
  4. “Truth is an unbearable thing. And its timing is bad.”
  5. “I had realized, by this time, that my path to power was to be immensely difficult and fraught with danger. But I did not look back.”