Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Quotes

#1. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

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#2. Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

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#3. When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

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#4. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

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#5. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

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#6. Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

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#7. No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

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#8. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

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#9. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

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#10. Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

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