Rami M. Shapiro famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others.
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Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.
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The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.
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Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.
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Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.
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To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.
-- Rami M. Shapiro
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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You don't need vision to be a visionary.
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When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
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God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
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