Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Sam Shoemaker, fully Samuel "Sam" Moor Shoemaker, III

Prayer may not change things for you, but it sure changes you for things.

Change | Prayer | Wisdom |

Richard and Greta Smolowe

We believe in a life continuum, and eternal life. Each incarnation or lifetime on earth is 'just a day in the classroom'... We believe the plane of greatest learning is the physical plane. It is up to all of us to make the most of each carnation. We believe that all there is in the universe is energy... and all energy forms, from subatomic particles to stars, are in a constant state of change and transformation... that interpreting energy frequencies on sensory bands creates the reality in which each life-form lives.

Change | Day | Earth | Energy | Eternal | Learning | Life | Life | Reality | Universe | Wisdom |

Richard Smolowe, fully Richard Edward Smolowe

If the body is only the vehicle by which the soul can access the experience of physical living, then there is no real physical me. The soul (or life force) is the only real me. If you and I (the souls) want to achieve the most from this earthly lifetime, the more varied the experiences we should seek. That said, it’s too easy for you and me to fall into a comfort zone and try to avoid change. To keep this from happening, the experiences change rapidly as a result of the body moving from infancy though old age. The physical changes help to enhance our learning curve, our ability to serve, and our chance to evolve.

Ability | Age | Body | Chance | Change | Comfort | Experience | Force | Infancy | Learning | Life | Life | Old age | Soul | Wisdom | Old |

Richard Smolowe, fully Richard Edward Smolowe

A species does not live within its environment; it interacts with it. Over a period of time a species can interact so violently that the changes it catalyzes can cause it to change dramatically--even to die out. Scientists estimate that 90% of the life forms that have inhabited our planet are now extinct. From the earliest single-cell life form to the human animal, all have interacted with the environment. All have created problems for themselves. All have been agents of evolutionary change. All have experienced evolution through cataclysm.

Cause | Change | Evolution | Life | Life | Problems | Time | Wisdom |

Lyall Watson

In short, human society is a product of evolution. It is created by natural selection and environmental pressures which bring individuals together in a special and powerful way, but it requires no physical change or mutation. It is a composition of ideas and beliefs - a new and essentially psychic phenomenon. A kind of supermind.

Change | Evolution | Ideas | Society | Wisdom | Society |

Richard Whately

If our religion is not true, we are bound to change it; if it is true, we are bound to change it; if it is true, we are bound to propagate it

Change | Religion | Wisdom |

Edward Noyes Westcott

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

Change | Man | Mind | Wisdom |

E. B. White, fully Elwyn Brooks White

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

Change | Day | Example | Nature | Time | Wisdom |

Henry B. Wilson, fully Henry Blauvelt Wilson

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you. The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

Better | Change | Man | Mind | Will | Wisdom |

Michael E. Angier

The greatest lever for change is awareness.

Awareness | Change |

Saul Alinsky, fully Saul David Alinsky

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Abstract | Change | Means | World |

Behavior Research Project NULL

People in our culture have a morbid tendency to avoid blame, because they do not wish to take the trouble to change their conduct in any way: blame-avoidance and blame-transference are therefore endemic amongst us. These are substitutes for repentance and renewal.

Blame | Change | Conduct | Culture | People | Repentance | Trouble |

Gil Atkinson

The most powerful agent of change is a change of heart.

Change | Heart |

Ralph L. Woods

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.

Change | Research | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

You, not karma, are in command of your present life. If you don't like it, change it.

Change | Life | Life | Present | Wisdom |