“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”
The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”
The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.”
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 1 : The Principles of Ritual
Context: There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
2004 Christmas message http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4125229.stm
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Context: For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. As long as this has not been achieved, if we think we are in the stage of building socialism but instead of ending exploitation the work of suppressing it comes to a halt — or worse, is reversed — then we cannot even speak of building socialism.
“You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.”
Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (1974), p. 77: Session 617: September 25, 1972
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)