Disappointed both in love and in friendship, and looking upon human learning as vanity, he had come to a conclusion that there was but one good thing in the world, videlicet, a good dinner
Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
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Al: You’re looking fuckin’ well, Jack.
Jack: It’s the learning fuckin’ nothing, Al, that keeps me young.
Regina Corrado, Ted Mann, Deadwood, s03e03
I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley.
“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.” [via, also]
“And so we learn at last the secret of Anatta, seeing the Self thus transitory and ever-changing; wrought but of thoughts that rise and pass in swift succession; component of the very stuff that dreams are made of; and, learning this, we cease to serve and worship that offspring of our Ignorance.”
The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“And so we learn at last the secret of Anatta, seeing the Self thus transitory and ever-changing; wrought but of thoughts that rise and pass in swift succession; component of the very stuff that dreams are made of; and, learning this, we cease to serve and worship that offspring of our Ignorance.” [via]
“A life of holiness, dignified by a deep learning in the Sacred Law, and graced by an unassuming modesty rare”
The Thāthanābaing By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)
“A life of holiness, dignified by a deep learning in the Sacred Law, and graced by an unassuming modesty rare” [via]