This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
The accumulated research pertaining to the accuracy of our memories and beliefs can be summarized as follows: All memories and beliefs are subject to change and distortion. Conscious beliefs and memory recall are highly dependent on language, emotion, and social interaction; as these variables change, so do our memories and beliefs. Children’s memories and beliefs distinguish poorly between fantasies and facts. The older a memory, the more difficult it is to ascertain accuracy.
Accuracy | Change | Children | Distinguish | Language | Memory | Research |
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Change | Forgiveness | Future | Past |
The existentialist insight, in part, is that meaning is something we give to life. We do not find meaning so much as throw ourselves at it. The Zen insight, in part, is that worrying about meaning may itself make life less meaningful than it might have been. Part of the virtue of the Zen attitude lies in learning to not need to be busy: learning there is joy and meaning and peace in simply being mindful, not needing to change or be changed. Let the moment mean what it will.
Change | Insight | Joy | Learning | Life | Life | Meaning | Need | Peace | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Zen |
Red Skelton, fully Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton
If we don’t change the direction in which we are going, we will end up where we are headed.
The President must have not only the courage of his convictions but also the courage to change his convictions.
Change | Convictions | Courage |
Social change rarely comes through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
Change |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men’s consciousness, that is to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men’s consciousness by the law of love.
Change | Consciousness | Improvement | Law | Life | Life | Love | Men |
All change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Eckhart Tolle, born Ulrich Leonard Tolle
Nobody can tell you who you are. It would just be another concept, so it would not change you. Who you are requires no belief. In fact, every belief is an obstacle.
Article 18 - Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Belief | Change | Conscience | Freedom of thought | Freedom | Practice | Public | Religion | Right | Thought | Worship |
Each day you have the opportunity to change yourself. What have you done today?
Change | Day | Opportunity |
And it’s a good reason to forgive. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Change | Forgiveness | Future | Good | Past | Reason | Forgiveness |
World Council of Churches NULL
Religious liberty includes freedom to change one’ religion or belief without consequent social, economic and political disabilities. Implicit in this right is the right freely to maintain one’s belief or disbelief without external coercion or disability.
Belief | Change | Coercion | Disbelief | Freedom | Liberty | Religion | Right |