"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness." - Aldous Huxley

Human beings are not born identical. There are many different temperaments and constitutions; and within each psycho-physical class one can find people at very different stages of spiritual development. Forms of worship and spiritual discipline which may be valuable for one individual maybe useless or even positively harmful for another belonging to a different class and standing, within that class, at a lower or higher level of development.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.