"If the doors of perception were cleansed,everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
"When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one."
Zohar I:24.1a
"Each religion brings out its own doctrines and insists on them being the only true ones...This is not through wickedness, but through a particular disease of the human psyche of the human brain called fanaticism"
Vivekananda "Living At The Source"

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Why Practice Judaism If All Is One? Two Nice Responses...

"I love that the Jewish path can lead me to devekut. But I don't need to prove that devekut is better than samadhi."
Jay Michaelson Everything is God p. 126


"Jewish forms are neither superior nor necessary. But they are superior and necessary for me because they are the vocabulkary of my heart and the technology of my body. The 'benefit' of nonduality is ending the tyranny of the egoic illusion and awakening the truth. The 'benefit' of Judaism is responding to that truth with acts of love and devotion; integrating it into a culture, community, and ethical tradition and naming it God. The world of yitzirah, the domain of the heart, needs its forms, its faces."
Jay Michaelson Everything is God p. 4
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