This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Phyllis V. Schlemmer and Dalden Jenkins
Our bodies and egos are vehicles by which we can access the experience of physical living. As a key ingredient in an automobile is its driver, so the key ingredient in a person is soul. Without active alignment to soul - a person is lost - the fundamental meaning of life is missing. Planet Earth is a sort of “soul-field”, a body of experience with a characteristic flavor, which individual souls enter to learn, evolve and serve. Perhaps it is a Hall of Mirrors at a fairground, where we see ourselves reflected, expanded and compressed in so many different ways.
Body | Character | Earth | Experience | Individual | Life | Life | Meaning | Soul |
Fulton Sheen, fully Archbishop Fulton John Sheen
The principal reason for sex deification is loss of belief in God. Once men lose God, they lose the purpose of life; and when the purpose of living is forgotten, the universe becomes meaningless. Man then tries to forget his emptiness in the intensity of a momentary experience.
Belief | Character | Experience | God | Life | Life | Man | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Reason | Universe | Loss |
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, fully Field Marshal Sir William Joseph "Bill" Slim
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley
Self-control is promoted by humility. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Character | Control | Evil | Humility | Mind | Pride | Self | Self-control |
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure in life.
Adventure | Aspiration | Character | Evil | Life | Life | Meaning | Repentance | World |