This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.
Better | Devotion | Excellence | Joy | Self | Sense | Sentiment | World | Excellence |
The taste of the English in the cultivation of land, and in what is called landscape gardening, is unrivalled. They have studied nature intently, and discover an exquisite sense of her beautiful forms and harmonious combinations. Those charms which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life. They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes.
Affliction | Agony | Consolation | Duty | Error | Friend | Grief | Love | Meditation | Mother | Present | Sadness | Sorrow | Child |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Emotions show up in your body as physical manifestations of your thoughts.
Meditation | Silence |
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity - which is only a concept in mind - has not yet begun to understand what it is all about.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are not in fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means?
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your IQ is an illusion. You can change that number around drastically by changing what is on the tests.
Experience | Resolution | Self | Serenity | Will |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind...
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the see-er, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life.
Meditation | Practice |
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
Self |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Noises at dawn will bring freedom for some, but not this peace. No bird can contradict.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The Ego is not the source of the Shadow and the Shadow is not the source of Ego. The Shadow does not have to be made conscious to the Ego to effect its Holy Mission. The Ego does not have to be conscious to the Shadow to effect its Holy Mission. Both Ego and Shadow are completely under the egis of the Self. The Shadow modulates…the Ego orients. The unconscious forces that make up the Ego and the Shadow are Transpersonal and Holy. They must not be appropriated by either the Ego or the Shadow and certainly not by the ego….the surface awareness. Shadow formation is never a conscious process nor does it need to be made conscious. It functions best unconsciously….just as the forces of the Ego operate best unconsciously. The Shadow can live through an individual, a family, a clan, a tribe, a community, a nation, and all of Humanity as a function of the intrinsic nature of Temporality/Manifestation/Time/Space. It is a part of Divinity’s (Self’s) Homeostasis or the Holy Love mystery of Balance. It is innate to the Wholeness or Holiness of Self.
Ego | Free will | Illusion | Life | Life | Mystery | Play | Self | Will |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.