This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it.
The faults of the soul are like body injuries: some care we take to heal, the scar still looks, and they are in danger at any time to reopen.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
From the vaikrita form of individuation proceeds the eleven-fold set characterized by goodness (sattva); from the bhutadi form of individuation proceed the subtle elements (tanmatras). In this, darkness (tamas) dominates. Both of these proceed from taijasa ahankara, in which rajas dominates.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Non-discriminativeness and the rest are proved by the existence of the three gunas and by the non-existence of these in their absence. The unmanifest is demonstrated by the effect possessing the properties of the cause.
Complacency | Enjoyment | Luck | Means | Nature | Time | Luck |
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and flimsy. He felt a little sorry for the occupants of such a place--and then asked himself who in this world had a temporary shelter.
Better | Cause | Enough | Generosity | Guidance | Husband | Little | Magnanimity | Man | Means | Memory | Patience | Quiet | Resentment | Wife | Will | Woman | Guidance | Guilty |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Possessed of this self-knowledge, and the proliferation of Nature having ceased (owing to its withdrawal from its seven modes), the Self stands apart and at ease, like a spectator.
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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Nature by herself binds herself by seven modes, and by means of one mode (knowledge), releases herself for the sake of the Self.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
The eight attainments are reasoning, oral instruction, study, the prevention of pain of three sorts, acquisition of friends, and charity. The three mentioned before (obstruction, infirmity and complacency) are the curbs on attainment.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Nine forms of complacency are propounded: four internal, relating to Nature (prakriti), means (upadana), time (kala)and luck (bhagya); five external, resulting from avoidance of enjoyment of objects.
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You will not mind if I say that where there is unhappiness in a house and there is an impression of someone [i.e. a departed spirit] coming back, it is because you make for that spirit a Garden of Memory in which it can live and revive its sufferings. Unless you are, consciously or unconsciously, in a state of mind in which this impression can vivify itself, you will not be troubled. Haven't you discovered that these things only happen to you when you are in a bad emotional state, physically or mentally disturbed? Don't you realize that you yourself vivify this memory?
Change | Consciousness | Control | Harmony | Life | Life | Means | Nature | Peace | Present | Regard | Time | Work |
When thou journeyest into the shadows, take not sweetmeats with thee, but a seed of corn and a bottle of tears and wine; that thou mayst have a garden in the land whither thou go eat.
Symbolism, with its inner feelings and impressions, is expressed with the same sensory aspects of the outer world's intensity and association. Symbolic dreaming is a survival that leads us from different cultures and different historical associations across centuries. It is still the language of the myth and fairy tale, and it is never forgotten in the unconscious, but too often its meanings are overlooked or not understood. In the symbolic dream, where time and space do not exist, we are linked with our earliest ancestors.
The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.
Patience is not to clench your teeth and do nothing. It means to be prescient enough to trust the end result of the process. What is patience? It means looking at the thorns and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so myopic as to see the result. Whoever loves God remains patient, because he knows that it takes time incomplete moon to be full.
Enough | God | Impatience | Means | Patience | Time | Trust | God |