This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell GOD with the wrong blocks.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Munificent Nature, endowed with attributes, accomplishes by manifold means the purpose of the attributeless and uncaring Self, with no gain for itself.
Hakuin, fully Hakuin Akaku NULL
You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?
Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along
Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.
Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann
The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible... All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
Isn't there a picture that belongs in the original frame? Life [one suspects she means spiritual life] cannot die. You can explode its dynamism [the physical body] but you cannot dissipate its energy. If you suffer where life suffered, the essence that once filled the frame will take from you something to dramatize and live again.
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Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann
Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
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Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.
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The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!
When you see a hand from afar, Kimya, can you do that there is only one school. But you dive into the water, you realize that there is more than a river. The river is hidden inside various currents and they all run in harmony, yet are completely separate from one another.
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