Have patience as one who fears no failure, courts no success. Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou art, the flaming star that shines within the light- less depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the Unknown.
—Helena Blavatsky
This Law—whether Conscious or Unconscious—predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself…Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Law
It is an eternal law that man cannot be redeemed by a power external to himself.
—Helena Blavatsky
Thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean.
—Helena Blavatsky
Be humble, if thou would’st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
—Helena Blavatsky
Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward; not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness.
—Helena Blavatsky
Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer’s eye.
—Helena Blavatsky
Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thy SELF is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
—Helena Blavatsky
When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One – the inner sound which kills the outer.
—Helena Blavatsky
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire—the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Risk, Courage
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Character
When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One – the inner sound which kills the outer.
—Helena Blavatsky
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of “the Great Breath,” which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute – Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
—Helena Blavatsky
It is an eternal law that man cannot be redeemed by a power external to himself.
—Helena Blavatsky
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use – that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
—Helena Blavatsky
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Difficulty
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Law
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Action, Change
Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
—Helena Blavatsky
Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
—Helena Blavatsky
Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there; this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.
—Helena Blavatsky
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Difficulty
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
—Helena Blavatsky
Topics: Choice
Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer’s eye.
—Helena Blavatsky
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two…
—Helena Blavatsky
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