“Consequently, they who cleave with all their mental powers to God … [they have lost their] existence like a drop which has… — Lawrence Kushner Life Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Activity Copy Share Image
“By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.” — Lawrence Kushner Books Copy Share Image
“We should draft dogs,” he said. “People would say, ‘But I love my dog; I wouldn’t send him to Vietnam. He might… — Lawrence Kushner Dog Copy Share Image
“We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings… — Lawrence Kushner Fear Copy Share Image
“You must protect people who have no social clout because the health of a congregation is measured by its ability to tolerate… — Lawrence Kushner Health Copy Share Image
“Again and again we trade infinite wonder for a handful of statue; we barter the limitless Nothing for the short-term bird in… — Lawrence Kushner Children Copy Share Image
“We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between… — Lawrence Kushner Poetry Copy Share Image
“Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“If Scripture be like a dream, then methods of understanding the dream are, at least in principle, valid for learning Scripture.” — Lawrence Kushner Bible Copy Share Image
“And this, then, is the job of the searchers and the dreamers: to reach deeper and deeper into the dream. Peeling away… — Lawrence Kushner Dreams Copy Share Image
“what is the underlying emotional dynamic of the story? "The emotions displayed in the dream are its most reliable elements. The emotion… — Lawrence Kushner Happiness Copy Share Image
Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God. — Lawrence Kushner Eye Copy Share Image
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security. — Lawrence Kushner Barometer Copy Share Image
“how he once slipped through the "scriptural text" of his daily life into the primordial light of consciousness itself.” — Lawrence Kushner Daily life Copy Share Image
When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something… — Lawrence Kushner Action Copy Share Image
“This is the great dream of which each individual dream is a personal manifestation. Dream is ontogenetic. Myth is phylogenetic. "Dreams and… — Lawrence Kushner Dreams Copy Share Image
“A kind of journal of forgotten, reworked, and remembered holy moments, too awesome to be simply described in everyday conscious language. It… — Lawrence Kushner Dreams Copy Share Image
That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in… — Lawrence Kushner Candle Copy Share Image
“All creation is patterned according to an inner blueprint or arrangement that carries within it a genetic memory of everything that ever… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“This consciousness is never still, not even for a moment. It will not be photographed or even named. In its wanting to… — Lawrence Kushner Time Copy Share Image
“The boundary between now and not yet will softly blur. And the clean line between your discrete body and all creation will… — 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… — Lawrence Kushner Education Copy Share Image
