Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Quotes

“Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“No man can swim unless he enters deep water.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“There is no higher religion than the truth.”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“Flowing down upon his shoulders," and as "having”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

“The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest”

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.- SHAKESPEARE.

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky