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“We were developing empathy and the ability to be aware of what was happening in the mind of another person. This, we realized, is the key, the fundamental ingredient without which real communication can’t happen. Developing empathy and learning to recognize what the other person is thinking are both essential to good communication, and are what this book is about.”
― If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
― If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
“This reaction is a good snapshot of how I had always approached Judaism: largely ignorant of context or history, generally assuming the worst, and quick to judge based on surface appearances.”
― Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism
― Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism
“interpretations. One traditional Jewish teaching claims that there are “seventy faces to the Torah,” meaning many different ways to understand it. Another declares: “Turn it [the Torah] over and turn it over, for everything is in it.”
― Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism
― Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism
“So I resolve to cancel my trip, and for a moment, I feel relieved. Then depression sinks in, and everything seems flat and colorless.” Zalman gave a rueful smile. “You’ve decided to go back to the gray land rather than the one that’s Technicolor, where everything feels significant.” That reminded me of Joseph Campbell’s words about refusing the call. If the hero doesn’t heed the call to action, he wrote in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the “flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones.”
― The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery
― The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery
“It is written, ‘This world is like a vestibule before the world-to-come; prepare thyself in the vestibule, that thou mayest enter into the hall.’ The meaning is clear: The vestibule is this world, and the hall is the world-to-come. Listen. In gematriya, the words ‘this world’ come out one hundred sixty-three, and the words ‘the world-to-come’ come out one hundred fifty-four. The difference between ‘this world’ and ‘the world-to-come’ comes out to nine. Nine is half of eighteen. Eighteen is chai, life. In this world there is only half of chai. We are only half alive in this world! Only half alive!”
― The Chosen
― The Chosen
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