A collection of valuable quotes on humor, medicine and spirituality
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath… We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland
one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes,
and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if
they are showing you the way.
Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it. –
The best test of a person’s character is how he or she treats those with less power.
“Whence come disease and healing?” asked the prophet Moses of God. “From me,” was the reply. “What purpose do doctors serve?” “They earn their living and cultivate hope in the heart of the patient until I either take away his life or give him back his health.”
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