“For Jews, reflection and renewal … are elicited through text study. Our most enduring words do not simply remind us of who we once aspired to be; they press us to ask how well we have lived up to them and how they might yet speak with urgency in our own time.”
– Rabbi Leon A. Morris, Talmud of America
Quotes
What It’s All About
“Strangers stopping strangers, just to shake their hand…”
–Robert Hunter
Arms Call
“Don’t spectate: CREATE!”
–Barbatus the Elder
Who Knows?
“Was I tottering on the brink of cosmic horrors beyond man’s power to bear?”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Forever Here
“Now is never just a moment. The long now is the recognition that the precise moment you’re in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future.”
— Brian Eno, cofounder of the Long Now Foundation
No Kidding
There is no word in Hebrew for ‘coincidence.'”
— Rabbi Yitzchak Zweig
Wide Open
“How can we live among so many wonders and not be overwhelmed by the sheer mystery of existence?”
— Robert Anton Wilson
Learning Curve
In youth, one learns to talk; in maturity, one learns to be silent. This is our problem: that we learn to talk before we learn to be silent.”
— Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Nature’s Forces
Women run the world; we men don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And wisdom comes from accepting this.”
– Me
Mind+Body=?
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”
— Teilhard de Chardin
Iconoclastics 101
Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
Summation
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Bumpersticker seen this afternoon (2505.21)