This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Energy | Fear | Life | Life | Order | Pain | Past | Learn | Old |
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new, sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!
Your words are the seed, your soul is the farmer, the world is your field; let the farmer look to the sowing, that the soil may abundance yield.
John Oxenham, pen name for Wiliam Arthur Dunkerley
To every soul there openeth a high way and a low; the high soul climbs the high way, the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on these misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. To every soul there openeth a high way and a low; and every man decideth which way his soul will go.
Paula Ripple, fully Paula Ripple Comin
Neither power nor wealth, neither education nor ability, neither gifts of creativity nor stores of human energy can insure against the reality that suffering will be our companion at some time during our journey. It is a presence as inseparable from the human condition as food and oxygen are from human life. It is part of our legacy.
Ability | Creativity | Education | Energy | Journey | Life | Life | Power | Reality | Suffering | Time | Wealth | Will |
Shoghí Effendi, fully Shoghí Effendí Rabbání
It is the soul of man which first has to be fed.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in the grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make sense.
The nidus [nest] of the malady from which our civilization suffers lies in the individual soul and is only to be overcome within the individual soul.
Civilization | Individual | Soul |
The soul cannot be understood as an aggregate of many parts, for everywhere it is apprehended as being other than the body, being that which measures and of one form. It is that which says in the body, `I know this.’
What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have.
Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Only for the soul that is reconciled to God is nature as a whole renewed; difficult moral questions, which are insoluble for the mind, resolve themselves without the least struggle; life once more becomes beautiful and lofty.