That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of life (Prov.… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“Genesis’ saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“The one who pays attention to the dreams, draws on them, and lives them out is blessed, even as the one who dreams is… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“But everyone dreams anyway. And we-from Joseph to Daniel to Freud-have had dreams, read them, interpreted them, hidden from them, and even, on occasion,… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“allowing the river of light-the deepest currents of consciousness-to rise to the surface and, without anxiety, animate our lives. We are thus blessed to… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“As any good teacher of dreams will tell you, you are all the people in your dream. Fritz Perls taught, "[All] the different parts,… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of?… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“Isolate and identify the primary elements of the dream text before us. What are the dream's components? One of the most common errors made… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“What first occurs to us on remembering the dream/reading the text may be the most important thing.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
“The story is not about someone else. It is not even about you. It is you. The one who "lives" in the dream is… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share
