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Radha Burnier (International President of the Theosophical Society – Adyar)
Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic nun with Indian citizenship and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979)
J. Krishnamurti (Writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects)
Faith in God is not an irrational, blind, daring leap, but a trust that is responsible in the eyes of reason and grounded in reality itself.
Hans Küng (Swiss Catholic priest, controversial theologian and author)
Rupert Sheldrake (Biologist, Theosophist and author)
In actuality God is not far from the seeker, nor is it impossible to see Him. He is like the sun, which is ever shining above you. It is you who have held over your head the umbrella of your variegated mental impressions which hide Him from your view. You have only to remove the umbrella and the Sun is there for you to see. It does not have to be brought there from anywhere. But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the Sun.
Meher Baba (Indian mystic and spiritual master) __________________________________________________________________ A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get __________________________________________________________________
Joseph Campbell (a mythologist who authored The Hero with a Thousand Faces) __________________________________________________________________
Martin Israel (a pathologist who became an Anglican priest, mystic, and healer) __________________________________________________________________
Abraham Joshua Heschel (a leading Jewish theologian of the last century) __________________________________________________________________ A teacher must not have any sense of essential superiority over the students nor The Mother (the spiritual co-worker of Sri Aurobindo) Let me be perfectly honest with you: I am not bothered when people use axioms, since the world is full of them. Many Jan Nicolaas Kind
Hillary Rodham Clinton __________________________________________________________________
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Ken Wilber __________________________________________________________________
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The T.S. can demonstrate to the world that a deep sense of brotherhood, a realization of spiritual kinship with each other, is a reality, in a group of ten or a group of two hundred—it does not matter what the size is.
Death is going home, yet people are afraid of what will come so they do not want to die. If we do, if there is no mystery, we will not be afraid. There is also the question of conscience—'I could have done better.' Very often as we live, so we die. Death is nothing but a continuation of life, the completion of life. The surrendering of the human body. But the heart and the soul live for ever. They do not die. Every religion has got eternity—another life; this life is not the end, people who believe it is, fear death. If it was properly explained that death was nothing but going home to God, then there would be no fear.
When you live everyday with "what is" and observe "what is," not only out there but inwardly, then you will create a society that will be without conflict.
For many who have experienced it, this vision of a changeless reality has been so powerful and so self-evidently true that they have concluded the changing world of everyday experience is somehow less real. The impermanence of things in this world is an appearance or reflection or illusion. Underlying everything is the true reality which neither comes into being nor passes away.
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
There is a type of faith quite essential in daily living. It is the courage and tenacity to proceed with the work in hand despite the discouraging wisdom of both the bystanders and our own critical mind. 
go directly to the point, hitting the nail right on the head. Having a bearing on our Theosophical circles nowadays, here is one of them: “If the teacher cannot live up to what the teacher teaches, he or she should no longer teach, but return to being a humble student again” . . . I can only say: Amen!
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Our Society stands upon an altogether unsectarian basis; we sympathize with every religion, but not with every abuse that exists under the guise of religion; and while sympathizing with every religion and making the best efforts we can for the purpose of recovering the common foundations that underlie all religious beliefs, it ought to be the duty of every one of us to try to enlighten our own countrymen on the philosophy of religion, and endeavour to lead them back to a purer faith - a faith which, no doubt, did exist in former times, but which now lives but in name or in the pages of forgotten books.
In the Theosophical Society there should be the atmosphere of wisdom, the fragrance that belongs to beautiful living. It is not enough to have knowledge of a purely mental sort. The Society should consist of persons whose life is becoming different, purer, more friendly, more beautiful in every way.
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the ‘edge of history.’ There would be a real New Age.
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.