This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.
Cultivate fine taste and discrimination in your choice of things. Get a right idea of values. Material possessions that you do not need and cannot use may be only an encumbrance. Let your guiding rule be not how much but how good. A thing you do not want is dear at any price. Avoid surplus age. Choose things that express your own individuality. You must possess your things or they will possess you. Look for quality rather than quantity. Unnecessary possessions bring unnecessary care and responsibility. Excess is waste. Have an occasional stocktaking and eliminate unsparingly.
Care | Choice | Excess | Need | Possessions | Right | Rule | Surplus | Taste | Will |
I Ching, Book of Changes or Zhouyi NULL
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.
Helen Schucman, born Helen Cohn
Every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.
Our thesis is that quantum mechanics leaves our body, our brain, at any moment in a state with numerous (because of its complexity we might say innumerable) possible futures, each with a predetermined probability. Freedom involves two components: chance (existence of a genuine set of alternatives) and choice. Quantum mechanics provides the chance, and we shall argue that only the mind can make the choice by selecting (not energetically enforcing) among the possible future courses.
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
Helen Schucman, born Helen Cohn
What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding. In this process when thought and feeling unfold themselves, which is only possible when there is neither acquisition nor acceptance, then there comes an extensional awareness, all the hidden layers and their significance are revealed.
Awareness | Choice | Observation | Thought | Awareness | Thought |
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need a mind without thoughts. In other words, you need a no-mind, just a pure silence, so you can see directly into things. And out of that clarity will come the choice on its own; you are not choosing. You will act just as a buddha acts. Your action will have beauty, your action will have truth, your action will have the fragrance of the divine. There is no need for you to choose.
Action | Choice | Mind | Need | Question | Thinking | Will |
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.
Anarchy | Choice | Government | Power | Government |
Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education,
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Jerome Bruner, fully Jerome Seymour Bruner
For a choice of pedagogy inevitably communicates a conception of the learning process and the learner. Pedagogy is never innocent. It is a medium that carries its own message.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Choice | Metaphysics | Power | Thought | Thought |
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.
Choice | Ends | Psychoanalysis | Taste | Value |
Jesse Helms, fully Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Choice | Government | Society | Society | Government |
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
Choice | Initiative | Success | Will |