“One should be so absorbed in prayer that one is no longer aware of one’s own self. There is nothing for such a person but the flow of Life; all one’s thoughts are with God. One who still knows how… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“The amount of communal participation in prayer is in inverse ratio to the combined vertical and horizontal distance between the leader of the prayers and the first occupied row of seats.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image