This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lord Acton, John Emerich Dalberg-Acton
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Fanaticism | Religion | Wisdom |
For this cause he came into the world; that he might be a witness to the truth; a living, unimpeachable witness of the truth that shall make us free - the truth of man’s religion (reunion) with God, through absolute spiritual self consciousness - with God - with the Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient Source and Fountain of Life, “in whom we live and move and have our being,” without whom we are not!
Absolute | Cause | Character | Consciousness | Eternal | God | Life | Life | Man | Religion | Self | Truth | Witness | World | God |
Mostly, reform in religion is rational. But if the religion be already too rational, reform must be emotional.
A conscience void of offense, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.
Character | Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Man | Offense | God |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all, ever since what might be call’d thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance to justify the ways of God to man... which is the foundation of moral America... to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider’d from the point of view of all, but of each. While I can not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism through Time.
Acceptance | Beauty | Belief | Character | Desire | Existence | Faith | God | Health | Justify | Life | Life | Man | Materialism | Mind | Mystery | Nature | Object | Purpose | Purpose | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Beauty | God | Poem | Thought | Understand |
Sharing is the great and imperative need of our time. An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but greatens his life, especially if sharing be done not formally nor conventionally, but rather with such heartiness as springs out of an understanding of the meaning of the religion of sharing.
Character | Life | Life | Meaning | Need | Religion | Time | Understanding |
Freddy Arevalo, aka Don Valerio Cohaila
I am a particle of this organism called the earth... Life is because life must be... Life and death are cosmic breath... Each person designs his own destiny... The purpose of life is to continue developing consciousness.
Consciousness | Death | Destiny | Earth | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom |
Yamada Koun Zenshin, or Koun Yamada or Yamada Roshi
The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.
Character | Perfection | Purpose | Purpose | Zen |