Sandy Nathan > Quotes

“Your life is your spiritual path.

It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.”
― Sandy Nathan, Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice

“Do you have any advice for your readers?

Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.”
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“I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“Concerning the popularity of vampire books:

I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality.

Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed!”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“If someone says, "You can make it!" down a vertical mountain when you don't ski very well, think about it before launching. This can be a turning point in your life. It sure was in mine when I slammed into the mountain.

I wish I'd said, "F'getabout it, sucka," and gone to the Kiddie Corral. Would have saved a lot of pain and surgery.

Think about this. What are you really up for? Is the thrill worth the cost?”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

“People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"

From the worst moments in my life.

I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.”
― Sandy Nathan

“Watcher of the Gate, let us die and die again, the little deaths that mean growth and change. Let the parts of us that need to die go, and the parts that need to live stay. May we pass through your doorway in glory when the last dying comes!”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem

“The mind breaks. Even if the person survives and gets away, it’s not over. What happened repeats itself inside the brain, all the time. Faces leap out of nowhere, and the body shakes with remembered pain. Terror, always. Rage that it happened, that others allowed it to happen. Having known torture, you can never know peace.”
― Sandy Nathan, In Love by Christmas

“Let the People feel the river of love this week. Let each of them learn what he came here to learn. Let each learn what she came to learn. Take away the darkness, O Lord, and bring us your light.”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem

“I pray to you, guardians of the North, for the strength to overcome the cold time, to get us through the hard time. Let”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem

“What I’ve talked about isn’t the whole story. The things people say crack me up. Conservatives in my country get infuriated about poor people feeling entitled to the miserable dregs our welfare system gives them. But that’s barely enough to keep us from having dead bodies lying in the streets. Some people throw fits because the poor feel entitled to the worst shit of the richest country on Earth.”
― Sandy Nathan, In Love by Christmas

“May they have the love and courage they need; may they have the will to die and be reborn.”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem

“Give us victory over the intruders from the outside, and over the intruders from the inside, he prayed within his heart. Free us from our poisonous thoughts and feelings, from the desire to see only small things and differences. Let us see that we are the same. As you are the One, so we are one.”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem

“love, he prayed. Let us recognize a great gift when it may appear small, or not what we wanted, or not a gift at all.”
― Sandy Nathan, Mogollon: A Tale of Mysticism & Mayhem