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God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know QUOTES

God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know QUOTES

1 " Each person has a Torah, unique to that person, his or her innermost teaching. Some seem to know their Torahs very early in life and speak and sing them in a myriad of ways. Others spend their whole lives stammering, shaping, and rehearsing them. Some are long, some short. Some are intricate and poetic, others are only a few words, and still others can only be spoken through gesture and example. But every soul has a Torah. To hear another say Torah is a precious gift. For each soul, by the time of his or her final hour, the Torah is complete, the teaching done. "

― , God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

2 " One should be so absorbed in prayer that one is no longer aware of one’s own self. There is nothing for such a person but the flow of Life; all one’s thoughts are with God. One who still knows how intensely one is praying has not yet overcome the bonds of self "

― , God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

3 " Genesis’ saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face and a body, arms and legs, but that at the time of the creation of the first man and woman, human beings did not know or care about a tangible likeness, about the fact that they had bodies. The awareness of them is an invention of the human self, idolatrously preoccupied with wanting something to look at in the mirror. "

― , God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

4 " Consequently, they who cleave with all their mental powers to God … [they have lost their] existence like a drop which has fallen into the great sea and has come to its root and therefore is one with the waters of the sea and it is not possible to recognize it as a separate thing at all. "

― , God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

5 " Again and again we trade infinite wonder for a handful of statue; we barter the limitless Nothing for the short-term bird in the hand. And when the deal is done, we have become what we serve: things rather than children of light. "

― , God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know