...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness… — 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 easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to… — 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. 3:18). One that yields heightened self-awareness and God's Word. One that permits sustained intellectual inquiry and Scripture's holiness. One that preserves clarity, but not at the expense of mystery. One whose playfulness does not dilute piety.… — 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 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 and a body, arms and legs, but that at the time of the creation of the first man and woman, human beings did not know or care about a tangible likeness, about the fact that they… — 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 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, any part in the dream-is yourself, is a projection of yourself."22 And to ask why we made our story this way and not that way is to reenter our sacred text once again as living participants.… — 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 Image
