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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. Henri Matisse		Friday Dec 12, 2025
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About Elena Petrovna Gan

	Elena Petrovna Gan
	Elena Petrovna Gan (Russian: Елена Петровна Ган, also Hélène, July 30 - July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire — May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. Read More

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Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.

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.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in heaven as on Earth, of the one flame. It is life and death, the origin and the end of every material thing. It is divine substance.

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.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

A creature of a more exalted kind was wanting yet, and therefore was designed; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast for empire formed and fit to rule the rest

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

The roots of faith rest in understanding, the synthetic principle of consciousness.

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the one - the inner sound which kills the outer.

Spirit is living, and life is spirit, and life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean.

The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that which we call the past.

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.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of the unknown absolute essence.

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.

Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

This earth is but the dismal entrance leading to the twilight that precedes the valley of true light, that light which no wind can extinguish, that light which burns without a wick or fuel.

Thou canst not travel on the path Before thou hast become that Path itself.

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.

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