This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And there my little doves did sit with feathers softly brown and glittering eyes that showed their right to general Nature's deep delight.
Melancholy | Words |
Are you becoming more and more aware of the interconnection of all beings, creatures and elements? Do you hold as your own Jesus' words: 'And whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me'? Are you getting tired of the way our society celebrates the false ego's selfish and insatiable drive to acquire and use more and more? And does that make you want to be an agent of healing? A declaration of life's interdependence is a sign of spiritual progress.
Arrogance | Fear | Fighting | Health | Life | Life | Listening | Nature | Practice | Soul | Surrender | Uncertainty | Will |
Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing...
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Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
My mind was never to invade my neighbors.
You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side.
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Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.
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Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
I cannot be just for books that deal with the woman as woman ... My idea is that everyone, both men and women, we sayons, we must be regarded as human beings.
Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.