Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation homepage > Notebooks of Paul Brunton

---

To take up an air of indifference to the actual and physical surroundings, to assert to oneself that the circumstances do not matter, may be mere pretension or pathetic self-deception. Environmental conditions do matter. Flesh and blood, nerve and body have reactions and responses which laugh at our theory.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 113