This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
Anyone can become part of the critical mass that offers us a chance of improving the world before it is too late. You can rethink your goals and question what you are doing with your life. If your present way of living does not stand up against an impartial standard of value, then you can change it.
Chance | Change | Goals | Life | Life | Present | Question | World |
Human life will never be understood unless its highest aspirations are taken into account. Growth, self-actualization, the striving toward health, the quest for identity and autonomy, the yearning for excellence (and other ways of striving "upward") must now be accepted beyond question as a widespread and perhaps universal tendency.
Excellence | Growth | Health | Life | Life | Question | Self | Will | Excellence |
A Course In Miracles, aka ACIM
Exploring the question brings more wisdom than having the answer
There is only one philosophical problem that is really serious, and that is suicide. To decide whether life is worth living or not is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question in philosophy.
Our civilization… is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition in order to question it.
Awareness | Civilization | Order | Question | Religion | Superstition | Awareness |