Sadhguru
"The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are." (07/28/2024)
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Sagan, Carl
"Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself." (08/03/2025)
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"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)
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Sagan, Francoise
"It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does." (07/29/2024)
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Sahn, Sueng
"A long time ago, Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." This is where philosophy begins. But if you are not thinking, what? This is where Zen practice begins." (06/05/2025)
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"Zen has a very simple and direct teaching style. Zen means that if you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth -- boom! Your experience!" (08/19/2025)
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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)
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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)
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"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." (10/11/2025)
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." (03/25/2025)
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Saint-Lambert, Jean Francois
"Often I am still listening when the song is over."
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Salzberg, Sharon
"A single act of giving has a value beyond what we can imagine. So much of the spiritual path is expressed and realized in giving: love, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity; letting go of grasping, aversion, and delusion... that is why the Buddha said that if we knew, as he did, the power of giving, we would not let a single meal pass without sharing some of it." (09/15/2025)
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"The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are." (04/15/2024)
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Sangharakshita, Maha Sthavira
"To know what we do not know is the beginning of wisdom." (09/02/2025)
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Santoka, Taneda
"In the never-ending sound of water, you will always find the Buddha." (07/02/2022)
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Saroyan, William
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." (06/04/2025)
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Schulz, Charles M.
"My Life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I am happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? (08/08/2025)
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Schweitzer, Albert
"As soon as a man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." (01/14/2024)
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."
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Seneca
"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." (07/30/2025)
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Sengcan, Jianzhi see Chien-Chih Seng-Ts'an
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Seng-Ts'an see Chien-Chih Seng-Ts'an
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Seppo
"All this universe is in this eye of mine." (10/31/2022)
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Sexton, Anne
"I am alone here in my own mind.
"There is no map.
"And there is no road." (12/15/2022)
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Shakespeare, William
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (09/25/2025)
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Shaw, Henry W.
"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." (08/07/2024)
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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)
Silesius, Angelus
"Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?" (03/27/2024)
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)
Singh, Charan
"Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want what you don't need." (10/15/2022)
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Sivananda (Swami Sivananda)
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." (06/18/2025)
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Sixin Wuxi see Wuxi, Sixin
Snyder, Gary
"Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness." (12/18/2024)
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Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder." (11/01/2022) (09/10/2023)
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
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Soho, Takuan
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"If we walk
"The true Way
"In our inmost heart,
"Even without praying,
"God will be with us!" (04/02/2025)
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"When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye. ... The mind that stops or is moved by something and sent into confusion -- this is the affliction of the abiding place." (09/06/2024)
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"Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child." (05/20/2025)
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Sokei-An
"When you go to Riverside Drive and sit beside the Hudson River, your thoughts come and go like sailing boats. Finally, they go away -- the mind becomes blank -- and you do not see the sailing boats. The blank mind goes away, and you are absolutely not there. But you still see the river and the green trees; you are expanded into the universe; and your heart beats in the rhythm of nature.
"Then "Oh!" and you come back." (01/03/2025)
Sokoloff, Arthur
"From the moment we cease trying to swim upstream and begin to flow with the current, something changes within us." (02/25/2024)
Spanish Proverb
"To the good listener, half a word is enough." (11/28/2022)
Spinoza, Baruch
"Reality and perfection are synonymous." (07/13/2024)
Sri Nisargadatta see Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Stafford, William E.
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“I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.” (02/11/2025)
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"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)
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"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)
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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)
Stein, Gertrude
"A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are doing any one thing." (11/08/2024)
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)
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Stevens, Wallace
"I am what is around me." (06/28/2025)
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Strassfeld, Michael
"It is in the ordinary rather than in the extraordinary that we should seek holiness and meaning." (01/05/2024)
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Stuart, Maurine
"Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances your life asks of you, respond to them in your own individual Zen-spirited way. Don't waste any time trying to be someone else. ... We are not here to have someone else's experience. We are here to have our own vivid experience. So please don't cling to yesterday, to what happened, to what didn't happen. And do not judge today by yesterday. Let us just live today to the fullest! Moment after moment, each sitting is the only sitting." (03/21/2024)
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"Sitting still is not what some of us may have imagined spiritual practice to be. We may think that it involves something more impressive. But those of us who do it, those of us who are present at this moment, know that this is it." (01/27/2025)
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"The practice is what you throw yourself into. Unconditionally. The practice is the teacher. Your practice is your teacher." (06/02/2025)
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"Zen is not safe. Letting go is a big risk. People are scared out of their minds to let go. To really let go of everything. To let go of everything! That's the big one, isn't it?" (12/14/2025)
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Su Tung-p'o
"The sound of the valley stream is the long, broad tongue;
"The form of the mountains -- isn't that the pure, clear body?
"In the course of the night -- eighty-four thousand Gathas --
"Tomorrow, how could I explain them to anyone else?" (11/26/2025)
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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."
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Suzuki, D. T.
"If you say you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have; silence is thunder; ignorance is enlightenment." (08/28/2024)
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"Logically considered, Zen may be full of contradictions and repetitions. But as it stands above all things, it goes serenely on its own way." (10/02/2025)
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"The most important thing is love." (10/08/2023)
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"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)
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"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)
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"Zen is not a pastime but the most serious task in life." (08/31/2025)
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"Zen is the "everyday mind," as was proclaimed by Ma-tsu. This "everyday mind" is no more than "sleeping when tired, eating when hungry." As soon as we reflect, deliberate, and conceptualize, the original unconsciousness is lost and a though interferes. We no longer eat while eating, we no longer sleep while sleeping. The arrow is off the string but does not fly straight to the target, nor does the target stand where it is." (05/06/2025)
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"Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points." (07/10/2023)
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Suzuki, Shunryu
"As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw." (07/12/2024)
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"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality." (08/12/2022)
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"Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away." (12/24/2023)
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"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." (12/31/2022)
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"We die, and we do not die." (09/30/2024)
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"We say "inner world" and "outer world," but actually there is just one whole world. In this limitless world, our throat is like a swinging door. The air comes in and goes out like someone passing through a swinging door. If you think, "I breathe," the "I" is extra. There is no you to say "I." What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves, that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no "I," no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door." (10/17/2025)
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"We say "just sit." What does it mean, "just sit"? When we say "just sit" it includes, actually, all of the activity, all the potential activity which we have; we remain in an inactive state, but we have infinite potentiality. In this sense our practice includes everything." (12/28/2024)
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"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)
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"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)
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"When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything." (10/22/2024) (12/02/2025)
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"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)
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“You cannot make a date with enlightenment.” (02/22/2025)
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Swift, Jonathan
"May you live all the days of your life."
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