Lawrence Kushner Quotes
- ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it.…
- Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
- A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a…
- Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.
- God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us,…
- 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…
- The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something…
- When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to…
- 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 the universe. It's…
- The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time.…
- Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.
- Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.