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. Annie Besant More Quotes by Annie Besant More Quotes From Annie Besant The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. Annie Besant men children ideas Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. Annie Besant yoga success men Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires. Annie Besant atheism fashion thinking 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. Annie Besant body twilight reality In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity. Annie Besant teaching expression blood Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought. Annie Besant self god religion Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. Annie Besant building-up destruction death To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child. Annie Besant childhood real children Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. Annie Besant applied-science drifting yoga The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist. Annie Besant sacrifice catholic law It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message. Annie Besant islam followers mean Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Annie Besant chords race humanity There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith. Annie Besant islam world thinking The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. Annie Besant illumination teaching heart The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned. Annie Besant buddhist buddhism mistake The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and... how many... are still working themselves out. Annie Besant karma climbing past I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness. Annie Besant strength-and-weakness mixtures weakness What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes. Annie Besant unity diversity philosophy The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. Annie Besant units alive body Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved. Annie Besant foundation growth race
