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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Sydney Smith

Dress covers the mortal body and adorns it, but style is the vehicle of the spirit.

Body | Mortal | Spirit | Style | Wisdom |

Denise Taylor

Falling requires letting go, as when we fall asleep or fall in love. If we refuse to fall, our body becomes rigid and our movements become premeditated.

Body | Love | 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 |

Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Body | Business | Counsel | Lust | Reason | Soul | Wisdom | Business |

Denise Taylor

To be present with the sensations in our body is not an act of will. It is a kind of equanimity or grace. In such movements we feel our activity belonging to life.

Body | Equanimity | Grace | Life | Life | Present | Will | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Tauri NULL

The body is only a vehicle for a life form, and a temporary one at that.

Body | Life | Life | Wisdom |

Symeon the New Theologian, fully Saint Symeon the New Theologian NULL

When a man walks into the sea up to his knees or waist, he can see the water all around him. But when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water. This is what happens to those who plunge into the vision of God.

Body | God | Man | Vision | Wisdom |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

Did you expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?

Body | Conscience | Soul | Wisdom |

Lord Edward Thurlow, First Baron

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Body | Justice | Soul | Wisdom |

Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

The body has its end which it does not know; the mind its means of which it is unaware.

Body | Means | Mind | Wisdom |

Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.

Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |