Great Throughts Treasury

"We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between dreaming and poetry or mysticism."

"We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe."

"What first occurs to us on remembering the dream/reading the text may be the most important thing."

"We should draft dogs, he said. People would say, ?But I love my dog; I wouldn?t send him to Vietnam. He might get killed."

"We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of life (Prov. 3:18). One that yields heightened self-awareness and God's Word. One that permits sustained intellectual inquiry and Scripture's holiness. One that preserves clarity, but not at the expense of mystery. One whose playfulness does not dilute piety. One whose public objectivity tolerates personal intimacy. In the spiritual code words of our generation: a holy text."

"What is the underlying emotional dynamic of the story? The emotions displayed in the dream are its most reliable elements. The emotion usually corresponds to the latent but not always to the manifest content of the dream.14"

"You must protect people who have no social clout because the health of a congregation is measured by its ability to tolerate dweebs."

"When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation."

"You choose to believe what you want, and you choose to do what you do. First comes life, then comes law. You are still responsible. You cannot hide behind anything. Since when does religious tradition permit you to short-circuit any morally uncomfortable decision?"