This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
There is little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The Heart Center is a transpersonal dimension or level. The Initiation forces are conducted in the dimension of Sacred Space, not in time and space, so we enter another dimension to access those forces. Through the daily attunement to the Heart Center there is a long-term transformation of the ego which then begins not only to orient to the Transcendent, to be responsive to the Transcendent, but there is also a birth into the dedicated ego, which is a transcendent kind of development which is neither the vast Deity itself, nor is it the ego-self – it is someplace in between, and has access to all the richness of compassion and healing.
Adventure | Awareness | Defense | Demeanor | Experience | Extreme | Giving | Important | Indifference | Knowledge | Law | Means | Power | Qualities | Sacred | Time | Understanding | Wholeness | Will | Awareness |
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
Politic man ordained imagination as the fateful sin. Grandmother and her basketful of pears must be the crux for our compendia.
Conscience | Law | Moral law |
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
You took me weak and unprepared. I had not thought that you who shared my days, my nights, my heart, my life, would slash me with a naked knife and gently tell me not to bleed but to accept your crazy creed.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the consolation of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
Enthusiasm | God | Heaven | Law | Man | Reading | Spirit | God |
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force
Law |
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
For here again, we come to a dilemma. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. For it was this mixture in her of man and woman, one being uppermost and then the other, that often gave her conduct an unexpected turn. The curious of her own sex would argue how, for example, if Orlando was a woman, did she never take more than ten minutes to dress? And were not her clothes chosen rather at random, and sometimes worn rather shabby? And then they would say, still, she has none of the formality of a man, or a man’s love of power.
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
A thousand people cannot convince one by words to the extent that one person can convince a thousand by action.
Dedication | Fortune | Good | Government | Law | Work | Government |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
The resolute one who moved by the principles of Thy Faith extends the prosperity of order to his neighbors and works the land the evil now hold desolate, earns through Righteousness, the Blessed Recompense. Thy Good Mind has promised in Thy Kingdom of Heaven.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
It is entirely possible for you to live unburdened by one crisis after another.