Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Emmet Fox

Every condition in your life is the out-picturing of a belief in the subconscious. Every ailment, every difficulty that you have, is but the embodiment of a negative idea somewhere in your subconscious, which is actuated by a charge of fear. Prayer wipes out these negative thoughts and then their embodiment must disappear too. The healing must come.

Belief | Difficulty | Fear | Life | Life | Prayer |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Three of the greatest teachers of the world, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, have left unimpeachable testimony that they found illumination through prayer and could not possibly live without it.

Prayer | World |

Emmet Fox

Truth is true because it is true – not because we make it so. Prayer does not change things for us, but it changes them by tuning us in to the eternal Truth. You have nothing to deal with but your own thoughts, and your own beliefs. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Change | Eternal | Nothing | Prayer | Truth |

Emmet Fox

There is no end to prayer. It echoes on forever in your soul. Long after the visible demonstration has been made and forgotten, the prayer that produced it continues to work for your spiritual advancement, for the creative power of a God-thought is unlimited and eternal.

Eternal | God | Power | Prayer | Soul | Thought | Work |

Emmet Fox

You can only live in the present… only act in the present… only experience in the present. What you call the future, things that you may be planning, or things that you may be dreading – all this is still but a present state of mind. This is the real meaning of the traditional phrase, The Eternal Now. The only joy you can experience is the joy you experience now. A happy memory is a present joy. The only pain you can experience is the pain of the present moment. Sad memories are present pain.

Eternal | Experience | Future | Happy | Joy | Meaning | Memory | Mind | Pain | Present |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

The bare fact is that truth cannot be tolerant and cannot admit compromise or limitations that scientific research looks on the whole field of human activity as its own, and must adopt an uncompromisingly critical attitude towards any other power that seeks to usurp any part of its province.

Looks | Power | Research | Truth |

Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu

Our prayer for others ought never to be: “God, give them the light Thou has given to me!” but: “God! Give to them all the light and truth they need for their highest development!”

God | Light | Need | Prayer | Truth |

David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins

The ultimate reality is beyond all names. “I” signifies the radical subjectivity of the state of Realization. It is in itself the complete statement of Reality.

Reality |

Aelred Graham

Without the worship of the heart liturgical prayer becomes a matter of formal routine; its technically finished performance may give aesthetic pleasure, but the spirit has gone out from it.

Aesthetic | Heart | Pleasure | Prayer | Spirit | Worship |

Sidney Greenberg

The function of prayer is not to enable us to acquire what we should like to possess, but rather to become what we are capable of being.

Prayer |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Consciousness | Prayer | Self | Surrender |

Romano Guardini

The most effective kind of prayer is that in which we place ourselves, in our hearts, before God, relinquishing all resistance, letting go of all secret irritation, opening ourselvse to the truth, to God’s holy mystery, saying over and over again, “I desire truth, I am ready to receive it, even this truth which causes me such concern, if it be the truth. Give me the light to know it – and to see how it bears on me.”

Desire | God | Light | Mystery | Prayer | Receive | Truth |

Jesse Helms, fully Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

Dirty |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In prayer we seek not to make God visible but to make ourselves visible to God.

God | Prayer | God |

Joel S. Goldsmith, fully Joel Solomon Goldsmith

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Consciousness | God |

David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins

In Reality, nothing requires explanation. Nothing is caused by anything else. Existence requires no explanation nor does it have any dependence on any other state or quality. This understanding is clarified by the realization that nothing in and of itself has any `meaning’. Therefore, neither does it have `purpose’. Everything is already complete and merely self-existent as its own self-identity.

Dependence | Existence | Meaning | Nothing | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Self | Self-identity | Understanding |

Allan J Hamilton

Could the mind have an existence entirely independent of the central nervous system?... Scientific evidence that not only was her brain not working, it specifically demonstrated the absence of all cortical activity when these conversations actually took place. So where could these brand-new memories have been created?... Imagine the implications of the notion that quanta of conscious energy could exist independently in the Universe, able to enter from anywhere, at any time.

Absence | Energy | Evidence | Existence | Mind | System | Time | Universe |

Sidney Greenberg

One of the real perils of growing older is that we tend to think less and less. We feel that we know all the answers… The mind and the soul become wrinkled. The function of prayer is not to enable us to acquire what we should like to possess, but rather to become what we are capable of being.

Mind | Prayer | Soul | Think |