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The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

Scott Sanders
May, Unexpected, Annoying
Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .

Scott Sanders
Community, Embrace, Planets

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

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

Scott Sanders
Web Of Life, Thread, Elsewhere
Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.19, Indiana University Press

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
Rain, Ocean, Islands
Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.142, Indiana University Press

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