Annie Besant Quotes

Guru, God and Self are One

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.

You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Yoga means to unite the limited with the unlimited.

I am a part and parcel of God.

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?