Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in… — Annie Besant Copy Share
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours… — Annie Besant Copy Share
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that… — Annie Besant Copy Share
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… — Annie Besant Copy Share
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,… — Annie Besant Copy Share
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story… — Annie Besant Copy Share
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being… — Annie Besant Copy Share
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were… — Annie Besant Copy Share
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for… — Annie Besant Copy Share
Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings. — Annie Besant Copy Share
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any… — Annie Besant Copy Share
