H. P. Blavatsky Quotes About Duty

• Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

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  H. P. Blavatsky

  Collected Writings, Volume XI, p. 465, www.katinkahesselink.net. October 1889.

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• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

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  H. P. Blavatsky

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.78, BookRix

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

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  H. P. Blavatsky

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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