Zalman Shalomi Quotes & Sayings

Just picture coming home and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your house, and knowing what you're about to find inside. . . ." Mr. Weasley winced. "Everyone's worst fear . . . the very worst . . . — J.K. Rowling

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

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ... — Marnie Stern

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed. — Frederick Lenz

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw. — Alice McDermott

And just like that, the strangest sensation started in her chest, like the valves of her heart were zapped with the electricity of their touch, jolted awake with the recovery of her smile, flexing slowly at first, but gaining momentum with each passing second until her heart was pumping at full speed. — Katy Regnery

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

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

If it ain't broke....don't hand it to me. — Dawn Nelson

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

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation. — Robert Jastrow

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

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

I love anything to do with history. — Waris Ahluwalia

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates

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

Silence came in two categories, quiet and painful, or quiet and comfortable. — Catherine Bybee

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

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

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. — Paul Conrad

I do not see how we can help thinking about God when He is so good to us all the time. Let me tell you how it seems to me that we come to know about our heavenly Father. It is from the power of love which is in our own hearts. Love is at the soul of everything. Whatever has not the power of loving must have a very dreary life indeed. We like to think that the sunshine and the winds and the trees are able to love in some way of their own, for it would make us know that they were happy if we knew that they could love. And so God who is the greatest and happiest of all beings is the most loving too. All the love that is in our hearts comes from him, as all the light which is in the flowers comes from the sun. And the more we love, the more near we are to God and His Love. — Phillips Brooks

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

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

The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul. — Neale Donald Walsch