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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Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

All human history from the earliest times to our own day may be considered as a movement of consciousness both of individuals and of homogeneous groups from lower ideas to higher ones.

Consciousness | Day | History | Ideas |

Barbara Fields Bernstein

We believe that humanity stands at the threshold of its next great leap. However, our success in making this transition depends on our willingness to develop a greater vision and a clearer sense of responsibility for one another. Understanding and articulating the nature and dynamics of consciousness is key to achieving this new vision.

Consciousness | Humanity | Nature | Responsibility | Sense | Success | Understanding | Vision |

Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Consciousness |

Charles H. Simpkinson

The effects of treating the planet in ways that ignore our inherent inseparability were never more evident. And from the perspective of a consciousness shared by all living beings, the peoples of the Earth are not isolated individuals.

Consciousness | Earth |

Peter Singer

If a higher ethical consciousness spreads, it will utterly change the society in which we live.

Change | Consciousness | Society | Will | Society |

Alan Cohen

Trust frees you to see the wisdom of the moment. The goodness of life is invincible, and in Justice is your assurance of success. The laws of consciousness work consistently for your highest good. They offer you consolation and guidance. You now embody the choice to earn your goal, which is at hand.

Choice | Consciousness | Consolation | Good | Guidance | Justice | Life | Life | Success | Trust | Wisdom | Work |

Alan Cohen

The path of purposeful action bears a double blessing for those who walk it: in the blessing of the world is your own. Right action is the key to the re-establishment of God consciousness within your world... Let your deeds speak your message to the world. Your actions have the power to heal. This is a responsibility of great and wonderful magnitude. It is your responsibility, and it is the easiest one, for when you choose the responsibility to heal the world, you instantly allow God to heal the world through you.

Action | Consciousness | Deeds | God | Power | Responsibility | Right | World | Deeds | God |

Alan Cohen

Harmonious living tells of harmonious thinking. A turbulent life reveals some kind of inner turmoil or lack of resolution... Outer events are simply the skin and bones of inner thoughts, and to really take control of our lives, we must treat them as one. Concentrate on that which you would become, not that which you now believe you are, and you will enter a new realm of consciousness - one of chosen good.

Consciousness | Control | Events | Good | Life | Life | Resolution | Thinking | Turmoil | Will |

Aharon Appelfeld

I see myself as a man who is searching for the meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not yet found the direction yet.

Consciousness | Life | Life | Man | Meaning |

Alan Cohen

You are privileged to participate in the transformation of consciousness on the planet earth. This is the most cherishable and glorious destiny of all.

Consciousness | Destiny | Earth |