This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Novalis, pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg NULL
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Individual | Soul | Universe | Wisdom |
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must not be the mere shell that we admire, but the thought that this shell is only the beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
Beauty | Mind | Perfection | Soul | Thought | Wisdom | Thought | Value |
V. V. Rozanov, fully Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov or Vasilii Rosanov
Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one.
Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory.
Action | Glory | God | Honor | Life | Life | Meditation | Reward | Soul | Wisdom | God |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
A sublime soul can rise to all kind of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.
Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley
"Keep aloof from sadness," says an Icelandic writer, "for sadness is a sickness of the soul." Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
Good | Life | Life | Mind | Misfortune | Object | Sadness | Smile | Soul | Wisdom |
Shantananda Saraswathi, fully Swami Shantananda Saraswathi, born Chandrashekar
Since every soul is looking for happiness and since happiness is really nowhere except in Divine Essence, every soul has to realize ultimately that it has been distracted. Then every soul has to retrace its steps so it can reach that Source of happiness which is both divine and universal.
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.