Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Elizabeth Gilbert

American Author, Essayist, Short Story Writer, Biographer, Novelist and Memoirist

"Your tears are my prayers."

"Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart."

"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."