This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Spiritual realization involves unfoldment from within and takes little account of our conscious educational activities. The aim is not to change our nature but to realize deeply who we really are.
I cannot change yesterday I can only make the most of today, and look with hope towards tomorrow.
There can be change without progress, but not progress without change.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.
Change | Inevitable |
Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
Your sorrow is for nothing. The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead. There never was a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be... That Reality which pervades the universe is indestructible. No one has power to change the Changeless... Death is certain for the born. Rebirth is certain for the dead. You should not grieve for what is unavoidable.
Change | Death | Future | Mourn | Nothing | Power | Reality | Sorrow | Time | Universe | Wise |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indisputable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Change | Controversy | Progress |
Time cures sorrows and squabbles because we all change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended is the same.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
There is a constant relation between the state of the universe at any instant and the rate of change in the rate at which any part of the universe is changing at that instant, and this relation is man-one, i.e., such that the rate of change in the rate of change is determinate when the state of the universe I given. If the ‘law of causality’ is to be something actually discoverable in the practice of science, the above proposition has a better right to the name than any ‘law of causality’ to be found in the books of philosophers.
Better | Books | Change | Law | Man | Practice | Right | Science | Universe |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Change | Controversy | Progress |
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change, and even to change if it recur not too quickly.
The wisest man may be wiser today than he was yesterday, and tomorrow than he is today. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.
Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untraveled minds.
If we don’t change the direction we’re going, we’re likely to end up where we’re headed.
Change |
Chief Seattle, also spelled Seathl
There is no death, only a change of worlds
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.