“According to the Buddhist tradition,” he began, “there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask someone to follow a different faith. Yet, because there are so many different mental dispositions, one religion simply… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“Our ancient sources of wisdom call on human beings to rise to their highest capacity and behave in extraordinarily open and generous ways to… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.” — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would be destroyed… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
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