Rodger Kamenetz Inspirational Quotes (6)

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Freud interpreted dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.