Great Throughts Treasury

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Fritz A. Rothschild

The Bible is primarily not man’s vision of God but God’s vision of man. The Bible is not man’s theology but God’s anthropology, dealing with man and what He asks of him rather than with the nature of God. God did not reveal to the prophets eternal mysteries but His knowledge and love of man. It was not the aspiration of Israel to know the Absolute but to ascertain what He asks of man; to commune with His will rather than with His essence.

Absolute | Aspiration | Bible | Eternal | God | Knowledge | Love | Man | Nature | Theology | Vision | Will | Aspiration | God | Bible |

Ssemiao NULL

He who would take good care of his health should be sparing in his tastes, banish his worries, temper his desires, restrain his emotions, take good care of his vital force, spare his words, regard lightly success and failure, ignore sorrows and difficulties, drive away foolish ambitions, avoid great likes and dislikes, calm his vision and his hearing, and be faithful in his internal regimen. How can one have sickness if he does not tire his spirits and worry his soul? Therefore he would nourish his nature should eat only when he is hungry and not fill himself with food, and he should drink only when he is thirsty and not fill himself with too much drink. He should eat little and between long intervals, and not too much and not too constantly. He should aim at being a little hungry when well-filled, and being a little well-filled when hungry. Being well-filled hurts the lungs and being hungry hurts the flow of vital energy.

Care | Emotions | Energy | Failure | Force | Good | Health | Little | Nature | Regard | Soul | Success | Temper | Vision | Words | Worry |

Baird T. Spalding

No two individuals have the same vision of life. It is said that only children and sages are happy because the child has not developed a material sense of value and the same knows that the material has no value. To them form is not the point of consideration but living life.

Children | Consideration | Happy | Life | Life | Sense | Vision | Child | Value |

Henry Suso

A vision is to be esteemed the more noble the more intellectual it is, the more it is stripped of all image and approaches the state of pure contemplation.

Contemplation | Vision |

William Wordsworth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy, but he beholds the light, and whence it flows, he sees it in his joy; the youth, who daily farther from the east must travel, still is Nature’s priest, and by the vision splendid is on his way attended; at length the man perceives it die away, and fade into the light of common day.

Day | Heaven | Infancy | Joy | Light | Man | Nature | Prison | Vision | Youth |

Barbara Fields Bernstein

We believe that humanity stands at the threshold of its next great leap. However, our success in making this transition depends on our willingness to develop a greater vision and a clearer sense of responsibility for one another. Understanding and articulating the nature and dynamics of consciousness is key to achieving this new vision.

Consciousness | Humanity | Nature | Responsibility | Sense | Success | Understanding | Vision |

Fred D. Anderson

The more specific your vision is, the better your chances of making it a reality.

Better | Reality | Vision |

Joel A. Barker

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Action | Change | Time | Vision | World |

Melodie Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Acceptance | Enough | Events | Gratitude | Important | Life | Life | Order | Past | Peace | Problems | Sense | Success | Tomorrow | Vision |

Herman E. Daly

Now that the United States and the rest of humanity have begun to confront the natural limits to our resources, we are in need of a new vision - a vision of a sustainable economy.

Humanity | Need | Rest | Vision |

Dorothy Fadiman

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

Vision |

James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

A well-conceived vision consists of two major components; core ideology and envisioned future.

Future | Vision |

Kālidāsa NULL

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Action | Beauty | Dawn | Day | Existence | Glory | Growth | Hope | Life | Life | Tomorrow | Vision |