This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Welcome, old friend! These many years have we lived door by door; the fates have laid aside their shears perhaps for some few more. I was indocile at an age when better boys were taught, but thou at length hast made me sage, if I am sage in aught. Little I know from other men, too little they know from me, but thou hast pointed well the pen that writes these lines to thee. Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope, one vile, the other vain; one's scourge, the other's telescope, I shall not see again. Rather what lies before my feet my notice shall engage-- He who hath braved Youth's dizzy heat dreads not the frost of Age.
Walter J. Ong, fully Walter Jackson Ong
Oral communication unites people in groups. Writing and reading are solitary activities that throw the psyche back on itself.
We often say things because we can say them well, rather than because they are sound and reasonable.
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Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.
Abundance | Better | Problems | Reality | System | Tomorrow | War | Will | Think |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Action | Capacity | Energy | Intention | Reality | Wise | Leadership |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Always focus your criticism on a child’s behavior instead of his value as a human being.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
It may be doubted, however, whether an entirely modern presentation of oriental or perennial metaphysics would be followed or accepted as trustworthy at present. Probably an intermediate stage is necessary, during which the method should be a presentation in modern idiom supported by the authority of the great Masters, with whose thoughts and technical terms most interested people are at least generally familiar. Moreover the question is bedevilled by the use, which has become a convention, of terms, mostly of Sanskrit origin, the colloquial sense of which, accepted by the early translators, is still employed. Often this sense is considerably different from the technical meaning given these terms in the Chinese texts, and it occasionally implies almost exactly the opposite. These misleading terms are still used, which is a matter of no importance to those few who understand to what they refer, and for whom any word whatsoever would suffice, but are a serious hindrance to the pilgrim struggling to understand.
Nothing | Reality | Sense | Understand |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.
The word agriculture, after all, does not mean agriscience, much less agribusiness. It means cultivation of land. And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both to revolve and to dwell. To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term agribusiness.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
Many people profess unconditional love, and yet below they are still working the mystery of the ego and attempting to compensate inadequacy and powerlessness. Crises are often the first opportunity of coming into wholeness – they are not what we think they are at the level of loss and humiliation. You think there’s nothing left, just a devastation, our eyes are so close to the problem that we can’t see the overview – to me, that’s why we pay attention to dreams, since the dream will reveal the dynamic if we can bring ourselves into accord with it, and we can let go of what we think we need, to move to “What does Life seek from us at this point, and how do we put ourselves into accord with that larger process?
Consciousness | Events | Mind | Reality |