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title: "2 Drifting Quotes By Annie Besant"
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> [Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/yoga-is-a-science-and-not-a-vague-dreamy-drifting-or-imagining/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/yoga-is-a-science-and-not-a-vague-dreamy-drifting-or-imagining-it-is/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

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## Other authors on Drifting

## More by Annie Besant

> [No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/no-philosophy-no-religion-has-ever-brought-so-glad-a-message-to-the/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-self-in-you-is-the-same-as-the-self-universal-whatever-powers-are/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/when-we-recognise-that-unity-of-all-living-things-then-at-once-arises/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/in-morals-theosophy-builds-its-teachings-on-the-unity-seeing-in-each/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/never-yet-has-a-god-been-defined-in-terms-which-were-not-palpably/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/after-a-study-of-some-forty-years-and-more-of-the-great-religions-of/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-human-body-is-constantly-undergoing-a-process-of-decay-and-of/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/sun-worship-and-pure-forms-of-nature-worship-were-in-their-day-noble/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/a-myth-is-far-truer-than-a-history-for-a-history-only-gives-a-story/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/there-can-be-no-wise-politics-without-thought-beforehand/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/every-form-not-being-the-whole-must-of-necessity-be-imperfect-less/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-divine-life-is-the-spirit-in-everything-that-exists-from-the-atom/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/debating-clubs-among-boys-are-very-useful-not-only-as-affording/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/morality-is-the-science-of-harmonious-relations-between-intelligent/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

> [The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-besant/the-orthodox-believers-in-god-are-divided-into-two-camps-one-of-which/)

[Annie Besant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-besant/)

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