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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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 |

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle

How “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.

Consciousness | Nothing | World |

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Consciousness | Future |

Ralph Waldo Trine

In the degree, however, that you come into a vital realization of your oneness with the Infinite Spirit of Life, whence all life in individual form has come and is continually coming, and in the degree that through this realization you open yourself to its divine inflow, you set into operation forces that will sooner or later bring even the physical body into a state of abounding health and strength. For to realize that this Infinite Spirit of Life can from its very nature admit of no disease, and to realize that this, then, is the life in you, by realizing your oneness with it, you can so open yourself to its more abundant entrance that the diseased bodily conditions - effects - will respond to the influences of its all-perfect power, this either quickly or more tardily, depending entirely on yourself.

Body | Disease | Health | Individual | Life | Life | Nature | Oneness | Power | Spirit | Strength | Will |

Ezriel Tauber

Only a goal that transcends the self and reaches beyond this world can create a true state of happiness in a person.

Self | World | Happiness |

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Consciousness | Destiny |

Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle

If you can neither enjoy nor bring acceptance to what you do – stop. Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that really matters: your state of consciousness. And if you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

Acceptance | Consciousness | Life | Life | Responsibility |

Keith Ward

Religion is not necessary to give meaning to life, thought it is necessary to any claim that there is one state or being of supreme intrinsic value, and there is one overridingly important human purpose and that is an objective, morally ordered pattern.

Important | Life | Life | Meaning | Purpose | Purpose | Religion | Thought | Thought |

Gary Ryan Blair

We live in a world where the unethical actions of a single CEO can leave hundreds, thousands and even millions of people in a state of complete economic devastation.

People | World |

James R. Flynn, aka Jim Flynn

Opinions about the perfect state of human society are only that; no road to ethical truth exists to moderate between them.

Society | Truth | Society |

Gerald Alexander Larue

As we have seen over and over again, whenever church and state enter into partnership, human freedom is restricted, intellectual growth is stifled, and education is formalized and routinized to exclude and smother innovation and creativity.

Church | Creativity | Education | Freedom | Growth | Innovation |

Daphne Du Maurier, fully Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Mind | Thought |

Irving Singer

If humanity, or life in general, was created to serve a particular purpose beyond itself, our being would be analogous to a manufactured artifact. There seems to be little in this state of affairs to justify the exultation that religious people sometimes feel in thinking that God's plan reveals the purpose and the meaning of all reality.

God | Humanity | Justify | Life | Life | Little | Meaning | People | Plan | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Thinking |

Watler D. Wintle

The man who thinks he can: If you think you are beaten, you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you would like to win but you think you can't, it's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world we find, success begins with a fellow's will. It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can!

Life | Life | Man | Mind | Success | Will | World | Think |

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but along, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man - war, poverty and tyranny - and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.

Consequences | Dignity | Man | People | Poverty | Sense | Struggle | Truth | Tyranny | War |

Adam Smith

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate.

Government | Government |