This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.
Fasting is the change of every part of our life, because the sacrifice of the fast is not the abstinence but the distancing from sins. Therefore, whoever limits the fast to the deprivation of food, he is the one who, in reality, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Show me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is poor, show him mercy. If you see an enemy, reconcile with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him! If you see a beautiful woman on the street, pass her by. In other words, not only should the mouth fast, but the eyes and the legs and the arms and all the other parts of the body should fast as well. Let the hands fast, remaining clean from stealing and greediness. Let the legs fast, avoiding roads which lead to sinful sights. Let the eyes fast by not fixing themselves on beautiful faces and by not observing the beauty of others. You are not eating meat, are you? You should not eat debauchery with your eyes as well. Let your hearing also fast. The fast of hearing is not to accept bad talk against others and sly defamations.
Action should be something added to the life of prayer, not something taken away from it. [Paraphrase]
Art | Beginning | Control | Ends | Lord | Man | Object | Order | Practice | Wise | Art |
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Need |
Kr?s?n?a is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kr?s?n?a, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things—but Kr?s?n?a—give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kr?s?n?a.
The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Danger | Technology | Danger |
That... is why the neo-Nazis had to do anything they could to question its authenticity.
He did not want to be buried in Austria, as he was afraid his grave will be mutilated.
Idealism | Technology |
I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.
Age | Children | Fault | History | Past | Survival | Temptation | Time | Worth | Fault | Temptation | Understand |
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
Human race | Knowledge | People | Race | Technology |
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
Mankind | Need | Power | Reality | Speech | Technology | Work |
It took me more than a decade to come to terms with this result [that simple computer programs can produce complex behavior], and to realize just how fundamental and far-reaching its consequences are. In retrospect there is no reason the result could not have been found centuries ago, but increasingly I have come to view it as one of the more important single discoveries in the whole history of theoretical science. For in addition to opening up vast new domains of exploration, it implies a radical rethinking of how processes in nature and elsewhere work.
Excitement | Hope | Ideas | Important | Mathematics | Nothing | Science | Technology | Time | Will | Words |
The overbearing matter-of-factness which sacrifices the subject to the ascertainment of the truth, rejects at once truth and objectivity.
Criticism | Man | Means | Organic | Price | Technology | Will |
Rather, knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly-founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.
Technology | Privilege |
Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.
Global | Purpose | Purpose | Technology | Will |
A democracy,—that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; 1 of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness’ sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Technology | World |
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.
Difficulty | Economics | Law |
The environmental crisis can only be forestalled when there is a broad new cultural understanding of what it means to be human. Sources of this new understanding would be myth – New Story…… a spiritually based on an understanding of nature as the primary revelation of the divine
Awareness | Earth | Excitement | Experience | Integrity | Land | Mystical | Need | Relationship | Reverence | Sacred | Space | Technology | Awareness |