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“By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.” quote by Lawrence Kushner — Download Open image

““By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.””

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any…

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“We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of life (Prov.…

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“Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.”

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“Genesis’ saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face…

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“The one who pays attention to the dreams, draws on them, and lives them out is blessed, even as the one who dreams is…

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“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,…

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“We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.”

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“Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he…

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“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…

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Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

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“As any good teacher of dreams will tell you, you are all the people in your dream. Fritz Perls taught, "[All] the different parts,…

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“Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of?…

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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