Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Paul Pearsall
American Author, Public Speaker, Psychoneuroimmunologist, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor at the University of Hawaii, Founder and Director of Psychiatric Clinic at Sinai Hospital, Founder and CEO of Ho'ala Hou (To Reawaken), Professor of Psychiatry at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Director of Professional Education at the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender and Reproduction
"Self-acceptance is more important than self-improvement. There is no possibility of self-improvement without the prerequisite of self-acceptance... Interdependence is more important than independence."
"All disease is brain disease... Only when the immune system is viewed as a world system will disease be reduced."
"Process is more important than product. We must learn to pay more attention to the "how" instead of the "what" we are doing."
"We learn more from studying happy, healthy people than we can learn from the exclusive study of the sick and stressed."
"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."
"You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head."
"We come to feel as we behave."
"Our every wish is a command and our every intention is an act of creation."
"True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything."
"Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer."
"I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow."
"The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there."
"Stop looking for love and start showing it."