“Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart of the heart of things. For these enlightened few, the world is always lit. For the rest of us, such clarity comes only fitfully, in sudden glimpses or slow revelations. Quakers refer to these insights as openings. When… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share
“Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“...nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Although "making love" may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.” — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“She wanted to live lightly on the earth, in harmony with its rhythms, all her senses keen and her mind alive and her spirit… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
