Top 13 Rodger Kamenetz Quotes

#1. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

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#2. According to the Buddhist tradition," he began, "there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask someone to follow a different faith. Yet, because there are so many different mental dispositions, one religion simply cannot serve, cannot satisfy all people.

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#3. Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

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#4. We can't choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones - but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

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#5. In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

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#6. Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

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#7. So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to God, through attachment to tradition, attachment to forms.

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#8. A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

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#9. Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

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#10. Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

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#11. The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would be destroyed by that attitude.

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#12. Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

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#13. I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

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