Great Throughts Treasury

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Emmet Fox

Your contact with God lies in recognizing your identity, the “I am.” The “I am” is everything you arrogate to yourself in thought. If you say, “I am sick,” you have ordered your own. If you say, “I am well, I am one with God,” you have ordered your own. God is universal - “I am what I am” - and you as an individual particularize it when you say, “I am.” When you use your “I am” in an inverted or negative sense, you are using it against yourself and will bring sickness, poverty, controversy, and fear into your life. When you particularize, or individualize, Divine Power by using “I am” constructively, then you will get health, prosperity, and abounding happiness, for you will have identified yourself with God - the gold mine within.

Controversy | Fear | God | Gold | Health | Individual | Life | Life | Poverty | Power | Prosperity | Sense | Thought | Will | God |

Nâzım Hikmet

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

Darkness | Earth | Gold | Light | Space |

Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Shōwa or the Shōwa Emperor NULL

Sublime is the moment when the world is at peace and the limitless deep lies bathed in the morning sun.

Peace | World |

Og Mandino

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath – so what does that make today worth?

Gold | Man | World | Worth |

Thomas Merton

The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

Despair | Joy | Life | Life | Music | Phenomena | Reality | Sadness | Silence |

Swedish Proverbs

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Abba Pimen

A man may seem to be silent, but if his heart is condemning others he is babbling ceaselessly. But there may be another who talks from morning till night and yet he is truly silent.

Heart | Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Truth and morning become light with time.

Light | Time | Truth |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Gold | Good | Order |

Arabian Proverbs

Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom.

Gold | Wisdom |

David Schmidtz

People who know they are terminally ill often seem to live more meaningfully. Though dying, they somehow are more alive. They cherish each morning and are vividly aware of each day’s passing. They see despair as a self-indulgent waste, and they have no time to waste.

Day | Despair | People | Self | Time | Waste |

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Birth | Day | Death | Life | Life | Little | Rest | Youth |

Author Unknown NULL

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Gold | Heart | People | Will |

Ben Sira

Accept whatever happens to you, and be patient in humiliating vicissitudes. For gold is tested with fire, and men who are approved must be tested in the furnace of humiliation.

Gold | Men |

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defensed of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those she had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Gold | Power | World | Worship |