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• Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love.

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  Karma, Strong, Men

  "The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant".

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• Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Denial

  Annie Besant (1890). “Why I Became a Theosophist”

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• In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

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  Reality, Appearance, Mask

  Annie Besant (2009). “Death - and After?”, p.70, The Floating Press

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• The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

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  Compassion, Misery, Evolution

  Annie Besant (1913). “Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy”

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• God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.

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  Karma, Space, Foundation

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Ancient Wisdom”, p.5, BookRix

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• Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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  Death, Building Up, Destruction

  Annie Besant (2016). “The Seven Principles of Man”, p.10, BookRix

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• Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

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  Mean, Light, Self

  Annie Besant (1894). “The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures”

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• Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

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  Evil, Imperfection, Becoming

  "The Immediate Future: Lectures Delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911". Book by Annie Besant, 1922.

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• Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

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  Nature, Butterfly, Form

  Annie Wood Besant (1884). “Our Corner”

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• After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

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  Spiritual, Years, Names

  Annie Besant (1914). “The Relativity of Hindu Ethics”

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• Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.

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  Men, Earth, Matter

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.373, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

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  Yoga, Philosophical, Inspiration

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• That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

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  Knowing, Definitions, Sin

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

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• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

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  Men, Enemy, Trying

  Annie Besant (1943). “Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant”

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• You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

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  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

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  Country, Courage, Adventure

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• A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

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  Religious, Growth, India

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

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  Men, Law, Needs

  Annie Besant (1878). “The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals”

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• Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

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  Karma, Passion, Men

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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

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  May, Our Actions, Morality

  Annie Wood Besant (2011). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

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  Men, Broken, May

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

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  Twilight, Reality, Body

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

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  Country, Past, Judging

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• The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

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  Voice, Advice, Spirit

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• We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

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  Dream, Sleep, Brain

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