Schachter Quotes & Sayings

God is always present. The question is, how present are we? — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. — Simone De Beauvoir

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor. — Danny Silk

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. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

T-E-A-M stands for together everyone achieves more. — Gary Busey

I don't care that we're not guaranteed tomorrow. I'll promise you forever, every day of your forever." The — Regina Bartley

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in. — Joshua Schachter

This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up. — Latoya Hunter

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter

Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

At the time I was living with a Mexican woman and it looked as if the relationship would be the death of her, and me, and the neighbors, and sometimes even the people who ventured to pay us a visit. — Roberto Bolano

The awareness that we stand in the presence of the Living God is one of the most important realizations we can install in our operative consciousness. God is always present. The question is, how present are we? We want to stand in that Presence without opacity. Our work is to penetrate, in meditation and in action, to the very heart of being nokhach penei ha-Shem (Lamentations 2:19), of being truly present before God. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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 — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job. — Joshua Schachter

cause down the shore everything's all right — Bruce Springsteen

Find your major flaw. There lies your glory. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future. — Ana Monnar

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product. — Joshua Schachter

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done. — Joshua Schachter

The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Careful. Why do persons only say that after the hurt? — Emma Donoghue

When he was made, the mould was broke," said Pete. — Jack London

When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky. — Joshua Schachter

Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had. — Chet Williamson

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. — Billy Bragg