“Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted, but rather where you are welcomed – by the people, the walls, the tiles on the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“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… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“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
“When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“...I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
