Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.
ANNIE BESANT
ANNIE BESANT
Annie Besant on desire
Annie Besant66 quotes“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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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant 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.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant 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.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Thought creates character.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant 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 BesantAnnie Besant Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant 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.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Wayne DyerWayne Dyer A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus Riches don’t respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Napoleon HillNapoleon Hill You don’t get things that you desire but you receive things that you deserve.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes Your soul is a magnet that attracts what you desire.
Aaron BellAaron Bell If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EpicurusEpicurus It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
HeraclitusHeraclitus