This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One of the problems of contemporary culture is that life moves at such a quick pace, we usually don't give ourselves time to feel and listen deeply. You may have to take deliberate action to nurture the soul. If you want to increase your soul's bank account, you may have to seek out the unfamiliar and do things that at first could feel uncomfortable. Give yourself time as you experiment. How will you know if you're on the right track? I like Rumi's counsel: 'When you do something from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.'
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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.
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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A great acacia, with its slender trunk and overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew and intense verdure, yet find room enough) stood reconciling all the place with green.
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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art a guest for queens to social pageantries, with gages from a hundred brighter eyes than tears even can make mine... what hast though to do with looking from the lattice-lights at me, a poor, tired, wandering singer.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins the Lord and a person together.
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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.
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Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun speeding bullets through the brains of the folks that cause me pains.
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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