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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Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. He who knows eternity is called enlightened.

Destiny | Eternity | Means | Peace |

Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

The two fundamental points in dealing with dreams are these: First, the dream should be treated as a fact, about which one must make no previous assumption except that it somehow makes sense; and second, the dream is a specific expression of the unconscious.

Dreams | Sense |

Thomas Merton

Today, eternity enters into time, and time, sanctified, is caught up into eternity.

Eternity | Time |

Fritz A. Rothschild

Eternity is another word for unity. In it, past and future are not apart; here is everywhere, and now goes on forever. The opposite of eternity is diffusion not time. Eternity does not begin when time is at its end. Time is eternity broken into space, like a ray of light refracted in the water… unity is a task, not a condition. The world lies in strife, in discord, in divergence. Unity is beyond not within reality.

Eternity | Future | Light | Past | Reality | Space | Time | Unity | World |

James Bisset Pratt

The visions of the mystics are determined in content by their belief, and are due to the dream imagination working upon the mass of theological material which fills the mind.

Belief | Imagination | Mind |

Robert H. Schuller, fully Robert Harold Schuller

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Thinking |

Sa’ib of Tabriz, aka Mirza Muhammad Ali Sa'ib, Saib Isfahani or Sa'ib Of Esfahan NULL

All this talk of infidelity and religion finally leads to one place: The dream is the same dream, only the interpretations differ.

Religion | Infidelity |

Baird T. Spalding

Forget the past, do not try to project yourself into the future for now is the only acceptable time. You are in eternity now.

Eternity | Future | Past | Time |

Charles Swindoll

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress...It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitude is right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Challenge | Choice | Day | Decision | Extreme | Hope | Progress | Right |

Gerald Vann

If you learn to see God in all things you will learn to love them according to His will, not your own self-will. If you see things as in eternity you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass.

Eternity | God | Love | Pain | Self | Will | God | Learn |

John Trudell

It does not seem as if knowledge has done the best thing for humanity. In the time of wisdom, I respected my brother’s dream and he respected mine.

Humanity | Knowledge | Time | Wisdom |

Alfred Edward Taylor

Since the moral law can rightfully command us to live as aspirants to eternity, eternity must really be our destination.

Eternity | Law | Moral law |