This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Robinson, fully John Arthur Thomas Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
Prayer is the responsibility to meet others with all I have, to be ready to encounter the unconditional in the conditional, to expect to meet God in the way, not to turn aside from the way.
God | Prayer | Responsibility | God |
Important rules to watch in living. Keep life simple. Avoid watching for the knock in your motor. Learn to like work. Have a good hobby. Learn to be satisfied. Like people, say cheerful pleasant things. Turn the defeat of adversity into victory. Met your problems with decision. Make the present moment a success. Always be planning something. Say “nuts” to irritations.
Adversity | Decision | Defeat | Good | Important | Life | Life | People | Present | Problems | Success | Work | Learn |
Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the person.
Oswald Spengler, fully Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler
Renunciation of world politics offers no protection from its consequences.
Consequences | Politics | World |
Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
All that is worldly can be transcended: one can reflect on all things between heaven and earth from a higher vantage point. The demands of the present are neglected, life becomes eternal. Coming to heaven, one enters a sphere beyond space and time. Why then should one aspire to being received by king and emperors?
Earth | Eternal | Heaven | Life | Life | Present | Space | Time |
Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle
If you can neither enjoy nor bring acceptance to what you do – stop. Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which also happens to be one thing that really matters: your state of consciousness. And if you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
Acceptance | Consciousness | Life | Life | Responsibility |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
A man following Christ’s teaching is like a man carrying a lantern before him at the end of a pole. The light is ever before him, and ever impels him to follow it, by continually lighting up fresh ground and attracting him onward.
Mao Tse-tung, alternatively Zedong, Ze dong, aka Chairman Mao
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Contradiction | Responsibility | Work | Leadership |