Great Throughts Treasury

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Ester and Jerry Hicks

All you gotta do is chill out... Let go of control and chill out...Let it be, trust.

Belief | Thought | Thought |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

From an economic point of view, the central concept of wisdom is permanence. We must study an economics of permanence.

Important | Means | People | Surrender | Truth |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of ‘whole numbers’ no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.

Atheism | Experience | God | Good | Nothing | Pain | Price | Reason | Science | Sense | Space | World | God |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Thought | Will | Intellect | Thought |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

We need but mention the mighty influence which irrational dogmas still exercise on the elementary education of our youth, we need but mention that the state yet permits the existence of cloisters and of celibacy, the most immoral and baneful ordinance of the “only-saving” church; we need but mention that the civilized state yet divides the most important parts of the civil year in accordance with church festivals; that in many countries it allows the public order to be disturbed by church processions, and so on.

Evolution | Law | Following |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

The doctrine of derivation, or theory of descent, as a comprehensive theory of the natural origin of all organisms, assumes that all compound organisms are derived from simple ones, all many-celled animals and plants from single-celled ones, and these last from quite simple primary organisms—from monads. As we see the organic species, the multiform varieties of animals and plants, vary under our eyes through adaptation, while the similarity of their internal structure is reasonably explicable only by inheritance from common parent-forms, we are forced to assume common parent-forms for at least the great main divisions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and for the classes, orders, and so forth.

Reason |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Although we are in possession of all requisite knowledge, it still requires a systematic, creative effort to bring this technology into active existence and make it generally visible and available. It is my experience that it is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity.

Present | Public |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

Man | Need | Order | Society | Society | Approval |

Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Present |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Anything you are giving your attention to is an invitation to the essence of it. Saying 'I want money, but it will not come,' is the same as saying, 'come to me, absence of money, which I do not want.'

Belief | Reason | Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The discipline that we would like you to exercise is to make a decision that nothing is more important than that you feel good, and that you are going to find thoughts that feel better.

Receive | Thought | Will | Child | Thought | Value |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Law | Thought | Think | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The child is vibrationally receiving your fears, your beliefs, even without your spoken word. If you want to do that which is of greatest value for your child, give thought only to that which you want, and your child will receive only those wanted thoughts.

Day | Reason | Thinking | Thought | Child | Parent | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.

Means | Opposition | Thought | Thought |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.

Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

Reason |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You are the creator of your own life experience, and as the creator of your experience, it is important to understand that it is not by virtue of your action, not by virtue of your doing, it is not even by virtue of what you are saying that you are creating. You are creating by virtue of the thought that you are offering.

Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-being.

Justify | Thought | Wrong | Thought |

Estonian Proverbs

Who shouts at home will bark away from home.

Will |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

What anyone else has or does not have, has nothing to do with you.

Beginning | Thought | Thought |