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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Annie Besant

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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Desire Live Man Passion People Space World
Thought creates character.
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Character Creation One Liner Thinking
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
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Build Darkness Growth Nature Passion Plant Silence Strong Violence
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
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Ability Children Community Education Greatness Hands Power Service Win
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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Body Law Man Nature Need Satisfaction
As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.
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Difference Emotion Judgement Memories Thinking
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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Deep Difference Divine Empty Light Meditation Soul Spiritual Wait
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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Dreams Impression Knowledge Learning
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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Adventure Battle Country Dangerous Face Forget Inspirational Joy Life Lose Noble Win
Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.
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Clothes Earth Herself Intelligence Space Strange
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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Break Death Encouragement Life Man Mistake Spiritual
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
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Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God’s manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
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Beautiful Death God Happiness Himself Man Nature Shine Touch Work
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
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Evolution Lie Moral Sentence Work
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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Atheist Goodness Happiness Philosophy Religion World

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

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