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The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

Annie Besant

God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.
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Breathe Build End Foundation God Himself Space
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
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Build Death Destruction Life Material
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
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Blame Doubt Faith Home Humanity Liberty Life Lost Moral Mother Protection Respect Wife
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
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Best Practice Religion Teaching Worst Yourself
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
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Faith Religion
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
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Humanity Life Nation Person Race
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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End Evil Imperfection
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
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
The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
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Energy Man Meditation Missing Opportunity Wasted Time
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Believe Evidence Experience Limitation Logic Mad Ourselves Position
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
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
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Civilization Development Evolution Intelligence Man Mental Place Simplicity
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
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Country Desire Future Judgement Knowledge Necessary Past Present Understand

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

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