Lawrence Kushner Quotes

#1. So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

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#2. A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

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#5. how he once slipped through the "scriptural text" of his daily life into the primordial light of consciousness itself.

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#6. Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

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#7. The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

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#8. God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.

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#9. Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

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#10. The one who pays attention to the dreams, draws on them, and lives them out is blessed, even as the one who dreams is also dreamt. We each take our turn at living out the dream. Like some ageless wave, Scripture flows through us.

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#11. Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

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#12. The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing" ... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

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#13. Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of? Whether or not we accomplish our original intention becomes unimportant.

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