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“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”
― The Chosen
― The Chosen
“God is not a being, but rather the process of being. Connecting with this kind of God is less about addressing an entity, and more about simply being present with what is. As rabbi Alexander S. Gross describes it, “the closer I feel to life at each lived moment, the closer I feel to God.”
― 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
“Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.”
― Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
― Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.
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You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
― The Chosen
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You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
― The Chosen
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