Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Helen Schucman, born Helen Cohn

American Clinical and Research Psychologist, Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, best known for writing "A Course in Miracles"

"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity."

"Forgiveness is the key to happiness."

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists."

"To take offense is to give offense."

"Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love."

"Corrective learning begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from belief in physical sight."

"Love holds no grievances."

"The ego lives by comparisons."

"There are no idle thoughts. "

"Anger involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one’s own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others."

"The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose."

"The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal."

"When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself ... for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself."

"Recognize what doesn’t matter, and if your brothers ask you for something, do it because it doesn’t matter."

"The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself."

"What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge. "

"Remember that those who attack are poor. Their poverty asks for gifts, not further impoverishment."

"The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love."

"The holy instant is the recognition that all minds are in communication. Every thought you would keep hidden shuts off communication."

"To the ego, the mind is private."

"God calls and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice."

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

"Whenever your thoughts wander, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely."

"When you feel defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. You therefore feel weak because you’re alone. "

"Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness."

"There is nothing outside you."

"The memory of God comes to the quiet mind."

"Perception selects, and makes the world you see."

"The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal."

"Let forgiveness be the substitute for fear. This is the only rule for happy dreams."

"Are you afraid to find a loss of self in finding God?"

"Only the self-accused condemn."

"The holy ones whom God gave you to save are everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are, all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will meet yet, the unremembered and the not yet born."

"Every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is."

"I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts."

"Without your smile, the world cannot be saved."

"My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. "

"Forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness."

"I am constantly trying to justify my thoughts, to make them true."

"What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. "

"His voice awaits your silence, for His word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while."

"No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one can grieve, nor fear, nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is only here salvation lies."

"There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought."

"The power of decision is my own."

"Ideas leave not their source. Change your mind about yourself and healing will follow."

"All that I give is given to myself."

"The world ... is a place whose purpose is to be a home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to question what it is they are. And they will come again until the atonement [at-one-ment] is accepted."

"He who would not forgive must judge."

"It is impossible to be hurt except by your own thoughts"

"Perception is but a mirror, not a fact. What I look on is my state of mind reflected outward. "