Edward Weiss > Quotes

“G-D REMAINS HIDDEN, not because of mystery or intention of hiding, but because of our limited perception. We see or perceive only in fragments and have a mutilated, distorted picture of the whole”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“The land flowing with milk and honey is an eternal land”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“The purpose of prayer is transformation; we go from a creature that relies on the world to one who depends on G-d.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“Acceptance of necessity opens the door to the eternal where there is nothing to do because all is already done.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“The battle is always between those who desire to be happy in the world and those who desire to be free - yet the only freedom that can be found is the freedom found in knowing G-d. Let us begin”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“To move from bondage to freedom requires a shift in viewpoint; the purpose of prayer is to affect this shift; to take you from someone in need to someone who knows all needs are met in G-d.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“Knowledge, and then love of G-d, is the
homecoming all long for, the banquet or feast
that has been long promised.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“We have been striving for the things of the world and in this striving, have thrown ourselves into exile. When enough pain is experienced over a lifetime, people ask the perennial question; 'What must I do to be saved?' They must accomplish the reversal and turn towards G-d. There is no where else to go. No other path to take.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“The freedom of G-d lies in HIs infinite Nature.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“Prayer is the water that chisels away the rock of self-importance.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“Prayer is the water that chisels away the rock of self importance.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“It is the desire to appropriate, to take unto yourself what is not yours that causes the horrible feeling of separation.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation

“Those who depend on G-d take the burden off of themselves and are liberated. Those who rely only on themselves make themselves G-d and carry the weight of the world; they are lost to sharing in the whole, lost to being a part of it all because they take unto themselves what is not theirs.”
― Edward Weiss, The Golden Prayer: A Path to Salvation