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“All births mean separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more the embrace…
“What is important in life is life and not a result of life.”- Goethe Mindfulness. Living in the moment. Goethe reminds us to focus on how we live our lives each day. He was very much of a renaissance man himself, with a breadth and depth of interests. So…
“Mankind? It is an abstraction. There are, always have been, and always will be men and only men.”- Goethe Whatever our grand ideas are of humanity and the human enterprise, Goethe once again brings us into the ordinary world of our everyday lives. That is where the real challenge…
My Life in Quotes- #6 “The great fault of us all is that we force logic on facts, whereas it is facts themselves that create logic.”- ibid. (D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism) You have to face the facts. There’s no hiding from that reality. We don’t have to like the…
“Those seekers of wide learning are like hairs (i.e. too many), whereas those who understand the truth are like horns (i.e. too few).”- ibid.- I use ibid. in my quotes document when I quote the same source in multiple entries, but that doesn’t work when I view them independently. …
My Life in Quotes #4 “. . . through the awakening of love we get a glimpse into the infinity of things. . . “- D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism When I read this quote, I don’t think I had yet experienced love in an adult sense. As a young…
People often confuse Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. The difference between them is crucial. In fact, we might say that it’s the difference between life and death. Veteran’s Day honors all who have served in the US military. Anyone who ever wore the uniform is recognized with our deepest…
My Life in Quotes– #3 “The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me.”- Meister Eckhart, quoted in D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism There I was majoring in Judaic Studies and Philosophy, and expanding my horizons beyond my insulated Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn. It…
I love words. I love when a word exactly captures the moment, the feeling. How it precisely describes something that you experienced but didn’t know exactly how to express. It’s like a warm bath or a deeply satisfying meal. And beyond that- a collection of words. A deeply insightful…
My Life in Quotes– #2 “The only immovable point is the unlimited freedom to change, to preserve freedom without content.”- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be Following graduation from John Dewey HS, I went on to Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. I knew that I wanted to be a…