Helena Petrova Blavatsky

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 Petrova 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 Petrova Blavatsky

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them." H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky