Rodger Kamenetz

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

— Rodger Kamenetz

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about…

— Rodger Kamenetz

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

— Rodger Kamenetz

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to…

— Rodger Kamenetz

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“Our ancient sources of wisdom call on human beings to rise to their highest capacity and behave in extraordinarily open and generous…

— Rodger Kamenetz

“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms…

— Rodger Kamenetz

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the…

— Rodger Kamenetz

“The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would…

— Rodger Kamenetz

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

— Rodger Kamenetz

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“According to the Buddhist tradition,” he began, “there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask…

— Rodger Kamenetz

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“The ancient sages said, ‘He who is angry—it is the same as if he worshiped idols.’ They also said, ‘One who yields…

— Rodger Kamenetz