This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The world today forces us to accept, at least intellectually, our oneness, our interrelatedness. And more and more people are awakening to the urgency of arresting the accelerating madness around us. As yet, however, our ways of responding are superficial, unequal to the complexities of the challenge. We do not take or even consider actions that threaten our security or alter our habitual ways of drifting through life. If we continue to live carelessly, indifferently, emphasizing private gain and personal indulgence, we are essentially opting for the suicide of humanity.
Beauty | Intelligence | Life | Life | Nothing | Rest | Universe | Wonder | Beauty |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
Intelligence | Man | Mind | Woman |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent... there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
Art | Intelligence | Life | Life | Art |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Immature man is like a frightened child, alone in a darkening room, not seeing the nearby light switch.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Unity |
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upheld by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Unity |
One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace.
Deeds | Good | Intelligence | Sound | Deeds |
Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others and be soft spoken.
Intelligence | Power | Intellect |
May we be blessed with the wealth of maximum capabilities. May we be blessed by the sermon of divine knowledge leading to our progress.
One should not only abstain from 'sinful-deeds' but also from 'sinful- speech' and 'sinful-thought'. By doing so we pave our way to success and peace.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were all there.
Day | Hero | Individual | Intelligence | Man | Mind | Science | Story | Think |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Take it on the mercy of God to punish unnecessarily.
Ignorance | Industry | Intelligence | Knowledge | Men |