Great Throughts Treasury

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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 |

Esther Perel

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. Maybe he can love her, but it's clearly much harder for him to desire her. There's no tension.

Intelligence | Lust | Need | Order | Space |

Esther Perel

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Order |

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 |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance - and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you.

Emotions | Good | Guidance | Hope | Right | Thinking | Guidance | Happiness |

Esther Perel

In order to bring lust home, we need to re-create the distance that we worked so hard to bridge. Erotic intelligence is about creating distance, then bringing that space to life.

Order |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

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

Beginning | Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

Action | Choice | Thought | Thought |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Music must naturally have been criticized in proportion as it improved, especially if its progress was considerable and subitaneous: for then it differs most from the sounds to which our ear is accustomed. But if we begin to be used to it, then it pleases, and it is prejudice any longer to oppose it.

Circumstances | Order | Power | Present |

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 |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Why canÂ’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. YouÂ’ll find what youÂ’re trying to say in him- as youÂ’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' 'Fine! ThatÂ’s beautiful. But I wasnÂ’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so letÂ’s drink up and forget it. ThatÂ’s more my idea.

Beauty | Earth | Life | Life | Love | Order | Beauty | Afraid |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Live joyfully, there is no other wisdom , do enjoy your similar , there is no other virtue .

Hope |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Too many opportunities to acquire seem to diminish the value of what we have

Hope |

Eugene Peterson

Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, donÂ’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

Waiting | Words |

Eudora Welty

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Character | Good | Pleasure | Speech | Thought | World | Think | Thought |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

With regard to natural cries, this man shall form them, as soon as he feels the passions to which they belong. However they will not be signs in respect to him the first time; because instead of reviving .his perceptions, they will as yet be no more than consequences of those perceptions.

Character | Necessity | Order | Present | Words |