This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
If the world has indeed been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.
Body | Love | Man | Pain | Perfection | Pleasure | Sorrow | Soul | World |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The essential proof of Self-realization - of God’s consciousness in you - is to be truly and unconditionally happy.
Consciousness | God | Happy | Self | Self-realization |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Mankind must realize that the basic nature of the soul is spiritual. For man and woman to look upon each other only as a means to satisfy lust is to court the destruction of happiness. Slowly, bit by bit, peace of mind will go.
Lust | Man | Mankind | Means | Mind | Nature | Peace | Soul | Will | Woman |
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The pursuits of mankind are commonly frigid and contemptible, and the mistake comes, at last, to be detected. But virtue is a charm that never fades. The soul that perceptually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
Benevolence | Cheerfulness | Kindness | Mankind | Mistake | Soul | Sympathy | Virtue | Virtue | Will |
The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.
Consciousness | Mind | Sympathy |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
We would not be human if we did not miss loved ones; but in feeling lonesome for them we don’t want selfish attachment to be the cause of keeping them earthbound. Extreme sorrow prevents a departed soul from going ahead toward greater peace and freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Do little things in an extraordinary way; be the best one in your line. You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that god's creative principle works in you. Never mind the past. Though your errors be as deep as the ocean, the soul itself cannot be swallowed up by them. Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
Determination | God | Life | Life | Little | Mind | Past | Soul | Will | World |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The most essential requirement for a happy marriage is soul unity - similarity of spiritual ideals and goals, implemented by a practical willingness to attain those goals by study, effort, and self-discipline.
Discipline | Effort | Goals | Happy | Ideals | Marriage | Self | Soul | Study | Unity |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality... So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now. You can instill any trend in your consciousness right now, provided you inject a strong thought in your mind; then your actions and whole being will obey that thought. One must never give up the hope of becoming better.
Better | Consciousness | Hope | Inclination | Mind | Personality | Right | Thought | Will | Think | Thought |
Oprah Winfrey, born Oprah Gail Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Life | Life | Philosophy |
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Consciousness | Future | Inferiority | Life | Life | Past |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. your face is unlike anyone else’s, your soul is unlike anyone else’s, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all - God.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
Education | Excellence | Important | Play | Right | Soul | Training | Will | Excellence | Child |