This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.
Beginning | Love | Reflection | Resolution | Will |
Timothy Sprigge, fully Timothy L.S. Sprigge
It is an objective fact whether a certain experience is pleasurable or unpleasurable, and relatedly whether a particular conscious individual is presently experiencing something pleasurable or painful. It is an objective fact, so we may put it, about a subjective state.
Belief | Reflection | World | Think |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Blindness is never bashful, for the one simple reason that that blindness cannot see.
Age | Contradiction | Life | Life | Model | Reflection | Time |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
I am sure I do not know why the beauty of Monte Carlo should not satisfy more than it does. The bluest of all seas is nowhere bluer than when you see it between the marble balustrades of the long white terrace before the casino, palms are nowhere greener than in that high garden which the mountain screen from every unkind breath, no colours could be more rich and various than those of the red and purple Alps that tower up behind the town, on whose summit such violent thunderstorms gather and break. But for me, at least, there was not at all the pleasure I had anticipated in this dazzling white and blue, these feathery palms and ragged Alps. ...I had a continual restless feeling that there was nothing at all real about Monte Carlo; that the sea was too blue to be wet, the casino too white to be anything but pasteboard, and that from their very greenness the palms must be cotton... in atmosphere and spirit the entire kingdom of Monaco is an extension of the casino.
Life | Life | Reflection |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you that you may be my poem I whisper with my lips close to your ear I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.
Life | Life | Nothing | Reflection |
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
What we know as 'life' is the analytical realization in the seriality of time of our eternal reality.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.
Beauty | Love | Reflection | Beauty |
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
Earth | Reflection |
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The supposedly solid human body turns out to be an intricate interweaving of energy fields; where disease is not an entity but rather a fixated warp of energy fields; where the experience of Unconditional Love transcends the limitations of personal love; where mortality itself dies-and becomes immortality-and where I accept the Divine nature of all life forms, simultaneously physical and nonphysical, structured and non-structured, existing and not existing in any particular form at any given moment.
Balance | Ego | Intention | Nothing | Reflection | Relationship | Self | Sense | Will |
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The unconscious is composed of multiple, autonomous personalities. These personalities affect our state of health -- from allergic response to disease states such as diabetes and cancer. He suggests that the unconscious mind is far more extensive and powerful than is generally acknowledged, and that the normal conscious mind cannot hope to control the personalities within. Esoteric rites and initiations, he maintains, were designed to call forth particular personalities from the unconscious at appropriate stages of development.
Dreams | Ego | Influence | Life | Life | Mind | Mystery | Nature | Position | Reflection | Think |
The rich earth, of its own self made rich, fertile of its own leaves and days and wars, of its brown wheat rapturous in the wind, the nature of its women in the air, the stern voices of its necessitous men, this chorus as of those that wanted to live.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
Absurd | Attention | Books | Earth | Evidence | Humanity | Important | Means | Oppression | Order | Paradise | Philosophy | Practice | Proletariat | Question | Reflection | Religion | Society | Struggle | Tomorrow | Unity | Will | Society | Old | Propaganda |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The revolution war, and this war is the only legitimate war in the world
Eternal | Nature | Reflection | Thought | Thought |
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
This whole psychiatry is nothing else but a kind of microcosm of communism [...]. It would be better left to people their personal problems. For the question arises whether the problems are not the only thing in the world that people may have on the property?
Appetite | Awareness | Ceremony | Light | Reflection | Sense | Sound | Time | Awareness |
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
Reality | Reflection |