This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
By anticipation we suffer misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
Anticipation | Earth | Eternity | Happiness |
Music is the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
The elementary idea, likewise, of the Promised Land cannot originally have referred to a part of this earth to be conquered by military right, but to a place of spiritual peace in the heart, to be discovered through contemplation.
The naturalist fallacy draws a conclusion about what ought to be, based on what is. The fact that people believe something to be true, whether it be the flatness of the earth or the morality of slavery, does not make it true or moral.
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the good ness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.
Beauty | Despair | Earth | Eternal | God | Good | Happy | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Sorrow | Spirit | Will | Worship | Beauty | Learn |
Luther Standing Bear, aka Ota Kte or Mochunozhin
Only to the white man was nature a “wilderness’ and only to him was the land infested with “wild” animals and “savage” people. To use it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it “wild” for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the “Wild West” began.
Blessings | Earth | Land | Man | Mystery | Nature | People |
Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking.
Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
The meaning of life is that we love one another. The purpose of our lives, it seems to me, is to learn how to do that, so we can create a world where everyone’s in love with everyone all the time. That would be Heaven on earth.
Earth | Heaven | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Purpose | Purpose | Time | World | Learn |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma
Physics has discovered the edge of infinity; the wisdom of the ages takes us across the border, which is nowhere but in us. When each person rejoins the stream of evolution that upholds the galaxies ands sweeps life forward on the wave of eternity, human existence will cease to contain any suffering, and our real purpose in living - to create heaven on earth - will be realized.
Earth | Eternity | Evolution | Existence | Heaven | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Suffering | Will | Wisdom |
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Salvation is not putting a man into Heaven, but putting Heaven into a man.
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours.
Heaven |