Human experience Quotes by Lawrence Kushner

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.”

— Lawrence Kushner

“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

“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

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

— Lawrence Kushner

“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

“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