This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gary Hart, born Gary Warren Hartpence
It is often much more difficult to learn from victory than from defeat. In defeat, questions are asked abut what went wrong, so that those mistakes will not be made in the future. But victory seldom creates the need to inquire as to its sources.
Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson
Poetry even at its purest is not prayer; but it rises from the same depths as the need to pray.
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
If practically everything in one’s life depends on the evolution of the level of one’s consciousness, it would seem that, aside from the mere survival needs, developing the level of consciousness would eclipse all other endeavors in importance. That would seem to be so, but that has to be integrated into the overall context of one’s life. Endeavors and activities can remain the same but need to be recontextualized and repositioned within a spiritual framework. To spiritualize one’s life, it is necessary only to shift one’s motive. To constantly be aware of one’s actual motive tends to bring up positionality and the pairs of opposites, such as gain versus service or love versus greed.
Consciousness | Evolution | Greed | Life | Life | Love | Need | Service | Survival |
To understand the mysteries of life and to appreciate the grandeur of our existence, we need to look way beyond our every day reality. If we can be expansive and think about the creation of our Souls and the nature of the universe, and consider why God made us and how we can accomplish our “mission,” then we can put this lifetime into a broader spiritual perspective.
Day | Existence | God | Life | Life | Mission | Nature | Need | Reality | Universe | God | Think | Understand |
One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us. All one need do is to notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling.
Experience | Mystery | Need | Sense | Time |
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
Love is beyond duality; it does not need a subject or an object. It is a quality of Reality which is independent of circumstances.
To keep people buying, you need first to make them dissatisfied with what they have… Advertising is nothing more than a technique to keep people in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction with what they possess and in a permanent state of itchy acquisitiveness.
Advertising | Need | Nothing | People |
Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason’s child; it springs from deeper strata.
Charles Douglas Jackson, aka C.D.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
The part of wisdom as well as of courage is to believe what is in the line of your needs, for only by such belief is the need fulfilled. Refuse to believe, and you shall indeed be right, for you shall irretrievably perish. But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Damien Hess, stage name MC Frontalot
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.
The young are looking for living models whom they can imitate and who are capable of rousing their enthusiasm and drawing them to a deeper kind of life. More than anything else, the young need sure guides to go with them on the paths of liberation that God maps out for them.
We want to become masters of our own destiny. We need no gods and no emperors; we believe in no savior; we want to direct our own lives.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself… not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps trans-humanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature… I believe in trans-humanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.
Belief | Destiny | Enough | Existence | Human nature | Humanity | Individual | Man | Nature | Need | People | Will | Wishes |