Blavatsky HP - Gems from the East/Wanted

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Gems from the East

A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms

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Thought of the day:

He who lives in one color of the rainbow is blind to the rest. Live in the light diffused through the entire arc, and you will know it all.

“The Path”, v. 3, № 12, 1889, p. 401

This page contains a list of quotes with sources to be found. If you are aware of them, please write to info@teopedia.org. See also the found sources.

1. The man who neglects the truth he finds in his soul, in order to follow its dead-letter, is a time-server.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:1|(...)]]

2. He who feeds the hungry before he has assuaged his own hunger, prepares for himself eternal food. He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker brother is – a god.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:2|(...)]]

3. In health and wealth man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:2|(...)]]

4. Man who has not hesitated to project his image in space and call it the Creator, sculpted not to endow God with his own vices.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:3|(...)]]

5. Of all the animals on earth, man alone has the faculty of causing moral trouble.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:3|(...)]]

6. The soothsayer for evil never knows his own fate.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:14|(...)]]

7. Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:16|(...)]]

8. The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul – truth everlasting.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:18|(...)]]

9. Without Karma, no fisherman could catch a fish; outside of Karma, no fish would die on dry land, or in boiling water.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:21|(...)]]

10. Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:22|(...)]]

11. Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:24|(...)]]

12. To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:25|(...)]]

13. There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:26|(...)]]

14. People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:29|(...)]]

15. Wealth in the hands of one who thinks not of helping mankind with it, is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:29|(...)]]

16. Craft has the best of men; boldness conquers cities; the first is despised, the last admired.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 11:29|(...)]]

17. Like as the night follows the day, so misfortune is the shadow of joy; Karma bestowing her lots with both hands.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:30|(...)]]