This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is a community of hatred. Hatred floods your mind with the ideas of the one you hate. Your thought reflects his, and you act in his spirit. If you wish to be like your enemy, to be wholly his, open your mind and hate him.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in your mind.
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broks is just a temporary condition.
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Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
All I desire is dominion over myself - dominion over my thoughts; dominion over my fears; dominion over my mind and over my spirit. And the wonderful thing is that I know that I can attain this dominion to an astonishing degree, any time I want to, by merely controlling my actions - which in turn control my reactions.
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
Rest your mind in the eternal present, but open your eyes to the highest possibilities of your life path. Trust the process of your life, keep your sense of humor, and, above all, remember that is never too late to experience the life you were born to live.
Eternal | Experience | Humor | Life | Life | Mind | Present | Rest | Sense | Trust |
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
Stress happens when your mind resists what is. If your spouse or lover leaves you, the amount of stress or suffering each of you experiences depends upon the meanings each of you places on the event.
Anything and everything in existence can be mastered when all effort is relaxed and the mind is absorbed in the infinite unbounded nature of consciousness. And then we are no longer upset by the play of opposites. And life is lived in freedom and joy.
Consciousness | Effort | Existence | Freedom | Joy | Life | Life | Mind | Nature | Play |
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear - a disastrous circle.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
When you are afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new... Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and manysideedness... Cheerfulness, and often Confidence, that is a mind devoid of fear, the highest good.
Cheerfulness | Confidence | Fear | Good | Mind | Money | Strength | Happiness | Think |
Dennis Genpo Merzel, aka Genpo Merzel Roshi
In the absence of discriminating thoughts, the mind as we know it ceases to exist. Our suffering - our feeling of discomfort, alienation, loneliness - arises because we create a dualistic way of perceiving everything that separates us from the external. When we view the so-called external phenomenal world as distinct from ourselves, then fear arises, fear that we will lose our lives, that we may not continue to exist. Out of that fear come anger, jealousy, greed, hatred, aversion, attachment - all kinds of clinging. All our problems arise out of seeing ourselves as separate entities. We cling to what we perceive as me; my physical body and my ideas, my mind, my thoughts, my understanding, my beliefs, my concepts, my opinions.
Absence | Alienation | Anger | Body | Fear | Greed | Ideas | Jealousy | Loneliness | Mind | Problems | Suffering | Understanding | Will | World |
Dennis Genpo Merzel, aka Genpo Merzel Roshi
The whole world is created from Mind. How we perceive it is the whole story. If we see everything from our ego-centered view, everything is too much to handle. Always we feel limited, unable to cope with situations. We feel small, helpless, and out of control. If we go beyond the egoistic view of the self as separate, then we can enjoy a more magnanimous, panoramic perspective that we call Limitless Mind (dai shin), infinite capacity and complete faith in things just the way they are. It all depends on how we choose to view life. Dropping the ego-centered self we discover the real self, which is none other than no fixed self, completely open to each moment of life.
Capacity | Control | Ego | Faith | Life | Life | Mind | Self | Story | World |
A right mind finds it easier to yield to perversity than to guide it.