Top 100 Yehuda Quotes
#1. Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.
Cecil Roth
#2. In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
Yehuda Berg
#3. Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals.
Na'ama Yehuda
#4. The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.
Yehuda Levi
#5. If you are seeking the right path, you are already on the right path.
Yehuda Berg
#6. Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.
Na'ama Yehuda
#7. At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.
Yehuda Berg
#8. A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Yehuda Berg
#9. The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
#10. The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
Yehuda Levi
#11. I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#12. We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
Yehuda Berg
#13. The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.
Yehuda Bauer
#14. Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Yehuda Amichai
#15. Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me.
Yehuda Amichai
#16. The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai
#17. For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.
Na'ama Yehuda
#18. And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.
Yehuda Amichai
#19. Yes, all of this is sorrow. But leave a little love burning always like the small bulb in the room of a sleeping baby that gives him a bit of security and quiet love though he doesn't know what the light is or where it comes from.
Yehuda Amichai
#20. If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
Yehuda Berg
#21. Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
Yehuda Berg
#22. Be the kind of person you want to be with ... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.
Yehuda Berg
#23. Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
Yehuda Berg
#24. Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic.
Yehuda Berg
#25. Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred ...
Yehuda Berg
#26. The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.
Yehuda Berg
#27. In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.
Yehuda Levi
#30. From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Yehuda Amichai
#31. If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
Yehuda Berg
#33. To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.
Yehuda Berg
#34. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#35. Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.
Na'ama Yehuda
#36. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.
Na'ama Yehuda
#37. Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
Yehuda Berg
#38. One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.
Yehuda Levi
#39. I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
#40. The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Yehuda Berg
#41. If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
Yehuda Berg
#42. Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.
Yehuda Berg
#43. I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
Yehuda Amichai
#44. In my life are many windows
and many graves.
Sometimes they exchange
roles:
then a window is closed forever,
then by way of a gravestone
I can see
very far.
(Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)
Yehuda Amichai
#45. Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
Yehuda Amichai
#46. The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
Yehuda Bauer
#47. When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.
Na'ama Yehuda
#48. People use each other
as a healing for their pain. They put each other
on their existential wound,
on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand.
They hold each other and won't let go.
Yehuda Amichai
#49. I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai
#50. Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
Yehuda Berg
#51. At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
Yehuda Berg
#52. The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
Yehuda Berg
#53. An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.
Na'ama Yehuda
#54. Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai
#55. And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai
#56. You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Yehuda Berg
#57. The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
Yehuda Berg
#58. One grey hair appeared on my head
I plucked it out with my hand.
It answered me: You have prevailed against me alone -
What will you do when my army comes after me?
Yehuda HaLevi
#59. A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.
Yehuda Berg
#60. If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
the national body and fill it with life.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
#61. Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.
Yehuda Amichai
#62. Healing is a choice. It's not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.
Yehuda Berg
#63. The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg
#64. There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Yehuda Amichai
#65. If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
Na'ama Yehuda
#66. Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen
Yehuda Berg
#67. With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
Yehuda Berg
#68. When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.
Yehuda Berg
#69. Spy (1973)
Many years ago,
I was sent
to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty.
And I stayed there
and didn't go back to my senders,
so as not to be made
to tell
about this land
and made
to lie.
Yehuda Amichai
#70. The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.
Yehuda Berg
#71. Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
#72. If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.
Yehuda Berg
#74. The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
Yehuda Berg
#75. I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
#76. 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg
#77. With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
Yehuda Berg
#78. Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
Yehuda Amichai
#79. If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
Yehuda Berg
#80. I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room where he made love
and not the face of the woman he loved there.
Yehuda Amichai
#81. Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs.
Yehuda L. Bialer
#82. It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg
#83. It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
Yehuda Berg
#84. You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.
Na'ama Yehuda
#85. I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling.
Na'ama Yehuda
#86. When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
Yehuda Berg
#87. Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.
Yehuda Berg
#88. Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.
Yehuda Berg
#89. My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai
#90. In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
Yehuda Berg
#91. Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
Yehuda Berg
#92. Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.
Na'ama Yehuda
#93. The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes..
Na'ama Yehuda
#94. It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
Yehuda Berg
#95. When you're truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
Yehuda Berg
#96. Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory
But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.
Yehuda Amichai
#97. Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
Yehuda Amichai
#98. The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and ... become a living language
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
#99. The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time.
Yehuda Amichai
#100. I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg
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