This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Both sin and sickness are error, and Truth is their remedy.
A primary method of learning is to go from the familiar to the unfamiliar.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Aggression | Love | Mankind | Method | Need | Oppression | Retaliation | Revenge | Time |
In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide; and I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on an endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
Effort | Method | Nations | Problems | Society | Suicide | War | Will | Society |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.
Soul |
He who would take good care of his health should be sparing in his tastes, banish his worries, temper his desires, restrain his emotions, take good care of his vital force, spare his words, regard lightly success and failure, ignore sorrows and difficulties, drive away foolish ambitions, avoid great likes and dislikes, calm his vision and his hearing, and be faithful in his internal regimen. How can one have sickness if he does not tire his spirits and worry his soul? Therefore he would nourish his nature should eat only when he is hungry and not fill himself with food, and he should drink only when he is thirsty and not fill himself with too much drink. He should eat little and between long intervals, and not too much and not too constantly. He should aim at being a little hungry when well-filled, and being a little well-filled when hungry. Being well-filled hurts the lungs and being hungry hurts the flow of vital energy.
Care | Emotions | Energy | Failure | Force | Good | Health | Little | Nature | Regard | Soul | Success | Temper | Vision | Words | Worry |
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
Raphael Simon, possibly also writes under Pseudonymous Bosch
Prayer is God’s own psychotherapy for His sinful children. It is His method of uncovering unconscious motivations and of recalling to consciousness those thins which have been excluded as painful and humiliating.
Children | Consciousness | God | Method | Prayer |
In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality.
Immortality | Soul |
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love and poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, fully Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
There is no possible method of compelling a child to feel sympathy or affection.