“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.”
― Seeing God: Ten Life Changing Lessons of the Kabbalah
― 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.”
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
― 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”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― 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.”
― Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
― Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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