This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
Thus it is - that, by the comparative blindness of man in each preceding period, the like blindness in each succeeding period is secured: without the trouble or need of reflection, men, by opulence rendered indolent, and by indolence and self-indulgence doomed to ignorance, follow their leaders - as sheep follow sheep, and geese geese.
Ignorance | Indolence | Indulgence | Man | Men | Need | Reflection | Self | Trouble |
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.
Heart |
Jesse Jackson, fully Jesse Louis Jackson
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given for you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything . Live the questions now and perhaps without knowing it you will live along some day into the answers.
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.
Harmony | Life | Life | Looks | Need | Philosophy | Religion | Thought | Friendship | Thought |
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.
Convictions | Faith | Force | Man | Rule | Strength | Wavering | World |
The earth is bathed in music... The drive towards 'synchonicity' and harmony is elemental and universal so it becomes comprehensible that the 'hidden' harmony within ourselves provides us with the strength to find the 'hidden' harmony in the cosmos and universe. The more 'chaotic' and 'atonal' the cluster, the more quickly the harmony develops. Disharmony is a springboard fostering the harmony within ourselves.
The fact that the eye constantly thrusts outwards distracts us from self-knowledge and the way inwards. It dissipates attention... The eye says I. We sense when someone is looking at us. Their gaze insists: Pay attention to me! Almost everyone is also aware of that when the observer is standing behind us. We notice after a while. Someone is there. Who is it? Who would not, however, know if someone were listening to us if he or she did not say so. The listener does not put the emphasis on himself or event the other person. He does not insist on a separation between subject and object. The ear establishes a 'more correct' relationship between ourselves and others. It implies unity rather than division. Eye and ear need one another. Ear and eye are not alternatives.
Attention | Knowledge | Listening | Need | Object | Relationship | Self | Self-knowledge | Sense | Unity |
Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, Sir John Lubbock
Religion is full of difficulties, but if we are often puzzled what to think, we need seldom be in doubt what to do.