2024: Index S

Sagan, Carl 

"We all have a thirst for wonder.  It's a deeply human quality.  Science and religion are both bound up with it.  What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate.  There's wonder and awe enough in the real world.  Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."  (07/21/2023)

Saint-Lambert, Jean Francois

"Often I am still listening when the song is over."

Schweitzer, Albert 

"Truth has no special time of its own.  Its hour is now -- always."

Shakti Gawain

"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be." 

Socrates

"Wisdom begins in wonder."  (09/10/2023)

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

Stafford, William F.

"I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air.  A sharp reminder hits me: this world still is alive; it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation, and I'm part of it.  Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give-and-take, this bowing to sun and moon, day and night, winter, summer, storm, still -- this tranquil chaos that seems to be going somewhere.  This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it.  This motionless turmoil, this everything dance."  (07/12/2023)

Stanley, Bruce 

"I've personally never found real magic in darkened rooms with mystical symbols, but have found it in the forest or along the seashore or in my back garden."  (03/17/2023)

Starr, Mirabai

"Spiritual practice is a direct experience.  When we follow our breath in the Zen tradition, or repeat the names of God in Islam, or kindle the Sabbath candles and welcome the Shekinah on Shabbat, or offer the light of a butter lamp to Mata Durga, we are harnessing timeless technologies precisely engineered to open the heart and transform consciousness. Practice knocks on the door of the soul and it opens to the presence of the sacred.  It shifts us from the intellectual realms of theology into the embodied space of spirit as it pours into and animates all that is."  (01/16/2023)

Steindl-Rast

"It isn't primarily a practice of thinking of one's last hour, or of death as a physical phenomenon; it is a seeing of every moment of life against the horizon of death, and a challenge to incorporate that awareness of dying into every moment so as to become more fully alive."  (03/16/2023)

Sumedho, Ajahn

"Yesterday is a memory

Tomorrow is the unknown 

Now is the knowing."

Sufi Mondo

"Once a disciple of Dhu'l-Nun knocked on the door of Abu Yazid's cell.  The Master said: "Who are you looking for?"

""Abu Yazid," the disciple said.

"The Master said: "Who is Abu Yazid and where is he? I have been seeking Abu Yazid for a long time, and I haven't been able to find him."

"When the disciple returned to Dhu'l-Nun and told what happened, Dhu'l-Nun said: "Abu Yazid is lost with those who are lost in God."

(09/04/2023)

Suzuki, D. T.

"The most important thing is love."  (10/08/2023)

"Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware.  It does not teach, it points." (07/10/2023)

Suzuki, Shunryu

"When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.  That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time."  (04/04/2023)

"Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see.  You are one with everything.  That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear."  (07/18/2023)

Swift, Jonathan

"May you live all the days of your life."