This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sided. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. Virtues are lost in interest, as rivers are swallowed up in the sea.
S'rîmad Bhâgavatam, aka Bhâgavata Purâna or Bhāgavata
Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all.
Al-Ghazali, fully Abū Ḥāmed Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī NULL
The heart perceives that which the eye cannot see.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
What blessedness it is to dwell amidst this transparent air, which the eye can pierce without limit, amidst these floods of pure, soft, cheering light, under this immeasurable arch of heaven, and in sight of these countless stars! An infinite universe is each moment opened to our view. And this universe is the sing and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and Love.
Blessedness | Character | Heaven | Intelligence | Light | Love | Power | Purity | Universe |
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach use? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
Character | Dawn | Evil | Gloom | Good | Light | Pain | Pleasure | Resignation | Teach | Happiness |
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
T. L. Fine, fully Terrence L. Fine
Too keen an eye for pattern will find it anywhere.
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others.
To forgive sin is not an act of injustice, though the punishment have been threatened. Even amongst men, though the promise of good bind the promiser; yet threats, that is to say, promises of evil, bind them not; much less shall they bind God, who is infinitely more merciful than men.
Character | Evil | God | Good | Injustice | Injustice | Men | Promise | Punishment | Sin | Forgive |
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare
The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind’s eye and our heart’s eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.
Character | Difficulty | Feelings | Heart | Land | Mind | Promise | Reality |
He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the ark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.