“The ancient sages said, ‘He who is angry—it is the same as if he worshiped idols.’ They also said, ‘One who yields to anger—if he is a sage, his wisdom departs from him; if he is a prophet, his prophetic… — 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 one another, under difficult circumstances to transcend differences and create understanding across all barriers of convention and fear. This wisdom is fragile as our environment is fragile, threatened by an overwhelming material culture. I believe in… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share
“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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