Great Throughts Treasury

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

John Assaraf

Israeli Spiritual Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author and Teacher

"I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated."

"If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can."

"If you want more money in your life, give some away. If you want more love, give some to someone else. Whatever you want more of, give more of."

"If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life."

"If you are interested you?ll do what?s convenient. If you?re committed, you?ll do whatever it takes."

"If what I saw its ambitions into your imagination for P will stick with it between your hands."

"If you can show your child what it?s like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become."

"If you can think about what you want in your mind and make him your idea will achieve the dominant reality in your life."

"If you do not master the art of self-discipline you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret."

"If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments."

"If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important."

"It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle."

"It is all about love. It is all about caring. We are all in this game together, we are all connected. You may not be able to see it with your eyes but if you go to the Quantum Universe, some of the physics of nature, we are all connected."

"If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes."

"It is really important to know that it is not just about us but about the community."

"Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can."

"It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?"

"Most people don't understand that at a thought has a frequency - every thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought, so if you're thinking about a thought over and over and over again, or if you're imagining in your mind, having that brand new car, having that money that you need, building that company, finding your soul mate, if you imagine what that looks like you're emitting that frequency on a consistent basis."

"It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words."

"Most people are thinking about what they don?t want, and they?re wondering why it shows up over and over again."

"Intuition is what you know before you think."

"No rules according to the universe, you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond."

"Our thoughts are linked to this invisible energy and they determine what the energy forms."

"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

"One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose."

"My body and all its organs were created by the infinite intelligence in my subconscious mind. It knows how to heal me. Its wisdom created all my organs, tissues, bones, and muscles. This infinite healing presence within me is now transforming every atom of my being, making me whole and perfect. I give thanks for the healing I know is taking place now. Wonderful are the works of the creative intelligence within me! I am now perfectly healthy."

"Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most."

"Remember to take a break from your daily ?do, do, do? to just ?be?."

"Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education."

"Plant your seeds. Water them. Do your part as best as you can. The universe will do its part perfectly every time, no exceptions."

"Practice to look stupid, practice to look like you are not good enough or smart enough where you couldn't do things right and get over it anyway. The truth of the matter is we are all going to feel that way."

"Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down."

"Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment."

"The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you."

"Success is not a mystery. It is a science."

"Take just ONE minute today and look around you and within you and try for just that minute to understand the utterly amazing miracle and incredible perfection and beauty you are experiencing and observing!"

"The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another is, in some way, to make that person?s life a little bit better to live."

"Success tastes that much sweeter when you have people to share it with."

"The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way."

"The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway."

"The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life."

"The secret to having it all is believing you already do."

"The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it."

"The strongest factor for success is self-esteem: Believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it."

"There is nothing that separates us except our belief that we are separate and so everything I do that is good in the world you benefit from you benefit from and everything I do that is not good in the world you lose from, and vice versa."

"To having no self-esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity."

"Truly forgive yourself for past mistakes, and release the weight, shame, guilt and any other possible negative emotions the mistake carries with it. Forgive yourself, live lighter, shine brighter."

"There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior."

"There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth."

"We all need to be compassionate and know that it?s is a game for all of us to win, we have to be on the same page and raise our level of awareness of what's possible and the awareness of how powerful we are and how good we need to be to each other."