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)
Saigyo
"Beside the roadway
"a flowing of clear water
"in a willow's shade
"I thought for just a short while
"to linger and take a rest." (07/31/2022)
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." (02/11/2022)
Saint-Lambert, Jean Francois
"Often I am still listening when the song is over."
Santoka, Taneda
"In the never-ending sound of water, you will always find the Buddha." (07/02/2022)
Schweitzer, Albert
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."
Sengcan, Jianzhi see Chien-Chih Seng-Ts'an
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." (04/21/2022)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
"I believe, because I do believe." (12/03/2024)
Shibayama, Zenkei
"The mirror is thoroughly egoless and mindless. If a flower comes it reflects a flower, if a bird comes it reflects a bird. It shows a beautiful object as beautiful, an ugly object as ugly. Everything is revealed as it is. There is no discriminating mind or self-consciousness on the part of the mirror. If something comes, the mirror reflects; if it disappears, the mirror just lets it disappear ... no traces of anything are left behind. Such non-attachment, the state of no-mind, or the truly free working of the mirror is compared here to the pure and lucid wisdom of the Buddha." (08/16/2022)
Shikibu, Izumi
"Watching the moon
"at dawn,
"solitary, mid-sky,
"I knew myself completely:
"no part left out." (12/27/2023)
Singer, Michael A.
"The day you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than the thoughts themselves -- that is the day you will find your way out." (07/17/2022)
Sixin Wuxi see Wuxi, Sixin
Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder." (09/10/2023)
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
Stafford, William E.
"I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly." (06/18/2022)
"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)
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)
Sumedho, Ajahn
"Yesterday is a memory
Tomorrow is the unknown
Now is the knowing."
Suzuki, D. T.
"The most important thing is love." (10/08/2023)
"We have never lost Paradise, but human consciousness tells us we have lost it and that we have to regain it. But in fact, Paradise has never been lost, Paradise is never to be therefore regained. We are in Eden, just as we are now." (07/08/20022)
"What characterizes Zen is this: simplicity and sincerity, and freedom. This is the one most important. Real freedom to see things in their "suchness." I would say. That is freedom.
"Sometimes so-called facts are not so important. But what scholars call imaginations or legends. they are more important in the study of human nature." (03/22/2022)
"Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points." (07/10/2023)
Suzuki, Shunryu
"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality." (08/12/2022)
"Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away." (12/24/2023)
"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)
"When we hear the sound of the pine trees on a windy day, perhaps the wind is just blowing, and the pine tree is just standing in the wind. That is all that they are doing. But the people who listen to the wind in the tree will write a poem, or will feel something unusual. That is, I think, the way everything is." (11/07/2023)
"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."
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