This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Starhawk, born Miriam Simos NULL
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.
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Before gazing at the sun of humility we must let the light of meekness flow over us.
Ecological restoration, allied with the creation of ecosystem-scale wilderness reserves, represents the main hope that the organic quality of wildness may someday be resurrected in human souls and in all life-places on planet Earth.
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Thomas Dewar, Lord Dewar, fully Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Enjoy now, another now is coming.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Ch'ien, fully T'ao Chien or Tao Qian, aka Tao Yuan-ming NULL
We had warm, wet weather all spring. Now, white autumn is clear and cold. Dew frozen, drifting mists gone, bottomless heavens open over this vast landscape of clarity, and mountains stretch away, their towering peaks an unearthly treasure of distance. These fragrant woodland chrysanthemums ablaze, green pines lining the clifftops: isn’t this the immaculate heart of beauty, this frost-deepened austerity? Sipping wine, I think of recluse masters. A century away, I nurture your secrets. Your true nature eludes me here, but taken by quiet, I can linger this exquisite moon out to the end.
The conclusion of the Lord's prayer (which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever, Amen) teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only, and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to him. And, in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.
W. J. Dawson. fully William James Dawson
The true gain is always in the struggle, not the prize. What we become must always rank as a far higher question than what we get.
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Poetry is the history of the human heart, and it continues to record the history of human emotion, whether it's celebration or grief or whatever it may be.
But thou, lorn stream, whose sullen tide No sedge-crown'd sister now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side Whose cold turf hides the buried friend!