This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are correct, but in only one respect - only if they happen to be talking about Judaism. Christianity simply does not share that deep and consistent historical reverence toward matrimony. Lately it has, yes- but not originally. For the first thousand or so years of Christian history, the church regarded monogamous marriage as marginally less wicked that flat-out whoring but only very marginally.
Care | Death | Depression | Friend | Lending | Life | Life | Loneliness | Love | Mind | Mistake | Need | Nothing | Office | Reason | Reflection | Sadness | Security | Time | Waiting | Will | Writing |
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.
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One of the problems of contemporary culture is that life moves at such a quick pace, we usually don't give ourselves time to feel and listen deeply. You may have to take deliberate action to nurture the soul. If you want to increase your soul's bank account, you may have to seek out the unfamiliar and do things that at first could feel uncomfortable. Give yourself time as you experiment. How will you know if you're on the right track? I like Rumi's counsel: 'When you do something from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.'
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Men say we are ever cruel to each other. Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood. If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes and plait the crown of thorns.
Church | Government | Men | Office | Public | Will | Government |
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
Forgiveness | Love | People | Forgiveness |
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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You may have many a wiser prince sitting in this seat, but you never have had, or shall have, any who loves you better.
Sense |
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
We two make banquets of the plainest fare in every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure we two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure.
Love |
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed-did some attributes of leadership are universal and are Often about finding ways of Encouraging people to combine Their efforts, Their talents, Their insights, Their enthusiasm and Their inspiration to work together.
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Action | Argument | Association | Church | Consideration | Convention | God | Hope | Nature | Will | Woman | Association | God |
My love runs by like a day in June, and he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon in the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- and I wish somebody'd shoot him.
Obligation | Woman |