Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God. — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Each person has a Torah, unique to that person, his or her innermost teaching. Some seem to know their Torahs very early in life and speak and sing them in a myriad of ways. Others spend their whole lives stammering,… — 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… — 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