Tao Te Ching
Reb Zalman
1924 – 2014 CE
Major founder and proponent of the Jewish Renewal movement and writer of the first English book on Jewish meditation; Rabbi Zalman when young was interned in Vichy French detention camps and escaped the Nazi advance in Europe by coming to America. In 1962 after experimenting with LSD, he left his more conservative tradition and became a voice in the counter-culture movement championing feminism, the Gaia hypothesis, and a kind of mystical pantheism. Recognized as a sheikh (wise elder) by a Sufi order, given an honorary doctorate by a Unitarian school of ministry, and World Wisdom Chair at the Buddhist Naropa University; he was an important voice in deep ecumenical dialogues
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American (USA) Anarchist Jewish
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Quotes by Reb Zalman (5 quotes)
“Where faith is weak, there is an abundance of beliefs.”
from Paradigm Shift
Chapters:
65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness
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“Elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world.”
Chapters:
17. True Leaders
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“Many a time we ease ourselves into convenient clichés and… once more we are trapped by habits that are the dunghills upon which the creeds feed.”
from Paradigm Shift
Chapters:
20. Unconventional Mind
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“God is always present. The question is, how present are we?”
from Paradigm Shift
Chapters:
25. The Mother of All Things
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“Many organizations dedicated to ‘Jewish continuity’ are running a heart and lung machine to keep a dying patient alive. They don't have a sense of how to build a future for Judaism, because most of the time they want immediate results.”
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