john m heller

“We are attracted to something—the opposite sex, art, jewelry—and we could spend our lives chasing these things. But we suffer from confusion. It’s really Hashem we want. But we confuse Hashem with His manifestations. We confuse the presence with the packaging.”
― David Aaron, Seeing God: Ten Life Changing Lessons of the Kabbalah

“Victor Frankl identified self-transcendence as an indispensable human capacity for meaningful living when he wrote, “Man is not destroyed by suffering; he is destroyed by suffering without meaning.”
― Frank Ostaseski, The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

“of a catastrophe on a global scale, and a kind of apocalyptic, “end-of-the-world” mood has taken hold of the last part of the second millennium. We already know”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

“The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night. The dawn is a refreshing time, a time of possibility and promise.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom