Great Throughts Treasury

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Ester and Jerry Hicks

There is a paradigm shift that is afoot because so many people around the world are understanding the vibrational aspect of living.

Abundance | Life | Life | Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You will know your path by the fun of it.

Attention | Cause | Giving | Harmony | Work |

Estonian Proverbs

A man who has learned much is rich.

Man | Woman |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Do not hesitate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing.

Blame | Giving | God | God |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The reason for desires, goals, for finding those decisions or points of focus, is because they are the life-giving things of the Universe. Without objects of attention, or objects of desire, Life-Force does not come through any of us.

Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You cannot receive vibrationally something that you are not a vibrational match to. And so, bless those who are finding abundance. And in your blessing of them and their abundance, you will become abundant too.

Awareness | Death | Experience | Good | Joy | Life | Life | Plenty | Promise | Awareness | Value |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Estonian Proverbs

Who is careless will be unhappy.

Man |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When you are thinking of money in the way that will make it come to you, you always feel good. When you are thinking of money in the way that keeps it from coming to you, you always feel bad. That is how you know the difference.

Attention | Giving |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you

Life | Life | Need |

Estonian Proverbs

A poor beggar is the one who begs without a bag.

Harm | Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

The little stars will always shine while the great sun is often eclipsed.

Heart | Man | Wise |

Ethel Barrymore

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Life | Life | Position |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.

Man |

Estonian Proverbs

The marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.

Man |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

Man |

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

Thus the same statement that guarantees that God exists and that his most suitable name is He Who Is, also reveals to us the perfect simplicity of the divine essence. And indeed, God did not say: I am this or that, but simply I Am. I am what? I am ‘I Am.’ So, more than ever, the statement of Exodus seems to soar above in a kind of empty space, where the attraction of the weight of philosophy can no longer be felt. The work of reason is good, healthy, and important, for it proves that, left to itself, philosophy can establish with certitude the existence of the primary being whom everyone calls God. But a single word of the sacred text at once puts us in personal relations with him. We say his name, and by the simple fact of saying it, it teaches us the simplicity of the divine essence.

Absolute | Experience | Light | Man | Truth | Intellect |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Further, laws and public transactions, together with everything that deserved the attention of mankind, were multiplied to such a degree, that the memory grew too weak for so heavy a burden; and human societies increased in such a manner, that the promulgation of the laws could not, without difficulty, reach the ears of every individual.

Ideas | Man | Memory |

Eugen Drewermann

All the things you did until you turned forty confront you again after midlife as a task, but this time inwardly.

Life | Life |

Eugen Herrigel

You have described only too well, replied the Master, where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.

Danger | Life | Life | Man | Soul | Time | Danger |