This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly, light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life." - Gretel Ehrlich
"There is a sanctity in suffering when meekly born. Our duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff, supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's rod, it changes to a snake." - Douglas William Jerrold
"outward realization must occur automatically, in no further need of the controlling or reflecting intelligence." - Eugen Herrigel