Scott Sanders famous quotes

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Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.
-- Scott Sanders

#Ocean #Rain #Islands
The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.
-- Scott Sanders

#May #Unexpected #Annoying
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.
-- Scott Sanders

#Heart #Trying #Fleeting
We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.
-- Scott Sanders

#Bullying #Responsibility #Rights
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .
-- Scott Sanders

#Community #Embrace #Planets
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.
-- Scott Sanders

#Web Of Life #Thread #Elsewhere

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ€™s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charmâ€™d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

Scott Sanders famous quotes

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