“This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.”

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The awe of God is wisdom.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Hand writing causes thinking – the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire.

If your goal isn’t scary and exciting, then it’s not a big enough goal for you.

And the mirror ball doesn’t care what color you are, and it doesn’t care how rich your parents are, and it doesn’t care what God you pray to

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.