This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The key to achieving everlasting happiness involves an enlightened four-prong approach: (1) understanding and loving others; (2) being virtuous and serving others; (3) living life fully and in the present; and (4) adopting an indomitable spirit of thankfulness.
Life | Life | Present | Spirit | Thankfulness | Understanding | Happiness |
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved when mediocre women occupy high positions.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Government | Spirit | Government |
Mohamed Iqbal or Sir Muhammad Iqbal, aka Allama Iqbal
Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
Civilization | Man | Respect | Spirit |
The problem is the spirit of our age: denial of transcendence, the vapidity of values, emptiness in the heart, the decreased sensitivity to the imponderable quality of the spirit, the collapse of communication between the realm of tradition and the inner world of the individual.
Hunein ibn Ishak, also Hunain or Hunein
While grasping eternal truth, ideas get into the whirlpool of consideration, and thus are raised to the sphere of pure spirit and arrive at the realm of high sublimity where the souls are resting in the shadow of Divine Majesty.
Consideration | Eternal | Ideas | Spirit | Truth |
Ron Leifer, fully Ronald Leifer
Refusal to cooperate with the [hospital] psychiatrist, rather than being within his rights under the Fifth Amendment, may be construed as evidence of a “paranoid illness” for which [the patient] requires further psychiatric hospitalization.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Although the tongue of God is busy speaking through all things, yet in order to speak to the deaf ears of many among us, it is necessary for Him to speak through the lips of man. He has done this all through the history of man, every great teacher of the past having been this guiding Spirit living the life of God in human guise. In other words, their human guise consists of various coats worn by the same person, who appeared to be different in each. Shiva, Buddha, Rama, Krishna, on the other side, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammad on the other; and many more, known or unknown to history, always one and the same person.
God | History | Life | Life | Man | Order | Past | Spirit | Words | God | Teacher |