Great Throughts Treasury

"To have all, give all to all."

"Love is the way I walk in gratitude."

"Can the world be saved if you are not?"

"Exploring the question brings more wisdom than having the answer"

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

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

"The ego lives by comparisons."

"Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it."

"There are no idle thoughts."

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

"To the ego, the mind is private."

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

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

"Only the self-accused condemn."

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

"My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts."

"Forgiveness is the key to happiness. "

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

"Anger comes from judgment."

"Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true."

"All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty."

"No belief is neutral."

"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think."

"Nothing outside yourself can save you. Nothing outside yourself can give you peace."

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. "

"Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed."

"Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation."

"Purpose is meaning."

"The world of time is an illusion."

"Doubt is the result of conflicted wishes. Be sure of what you want, and doubt becomes impossible."

"Everyone experiences fear. Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level."

"If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself. You cannot know your brother when you attack him. Attack is always made upon a stranger. You are making him a stranger by misperceiving him, and so you cannot know him. It is because you have made him a stranger that you are afraid of him. Perceive him correctly so that you can know him. "

"Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything. Once forgiveness has been accepted, prayer in the usual sense becomes utterly meaningless. The prayer for forgiveness is nothing more than a request that you may be able to recognize what you already have."

"Dreams show you that you have the power."

"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity"

"Love holds no grievances."

"When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"To take offense is to give offense."

"Teach only love for that is what you are."