This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
Contentment | Effort | Faith | Guidance | Life | Life | Listening | Need | Power | Right | Teach | Truth | Wisdom | Guidance |
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. It is well worth while to learn how to win the heart of a man the right way... Excite them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own.
Desire | Friend | Giving | Heart | Love | Man | Nothing | Present | Right | Soul | Worth | Friends | Learn |
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
Sosan Zenji, aka Chien-chih Seng-Tsan or Ch'an Seng-ts'an
Do not remain in the dualistic state; avoid such pursuits carefully. If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion. Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached even to this One. When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.
Sosan Zenji, aka Chien-chih Seng-Tsan or Ch'an Seng-ts'an
Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment there is no liking and disliking. All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like dreams of flowers in air: foolish to try to grasp them. Gain and loss, right and wrong: such thoughts must finally be abolished at once.
In the past we have admitted the right of the individual to injure the future of the Republic for his own present profit. In fact there has been a good deal of a demand for unrestricted individualism, for the right of the individual to injure the future of all of us for his own temporary and immediate profit. The time has come for a change. As a people we have the right and the duty, second to moral law, of requiring and doing justice, to protect ourselves and our children against the wasteful development of our natural resources, whether that waste is caused by the actual destruction of such resources or by making them impossible of development hereafter.
Change | Children | Duty | Future | Good | Individual | Justice | Law | Moral law | Past | People | Present | Right | Time | Waste |
Differences of opinion give me but little concern; but it a real pleasure to be brought into communication with anyone who is in earnest, and who really looks to God's will as his standard of right and wrong, and judges of actions according to their greater or lesser conformity.
Conformity | God | Little | Looks | Opinion | Pleasure | Right | Will | Wrong |
Tecumseh, aka Tecumtha or Tekamthi NULL
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest reason, to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Reason | Right | Temptation | Wrong | Temptation |