Rabbi Saks - The Pursuit of Meaning
Each of us is unique. Even genetically identical twins are different. There are things only we can do, we who are what we are, in this time, this place and these circumstances. For each of us God has a task: work to perform, a kindness to show, a gift to give, love to share, loneliness to ease, pain to heal, or broken lives to help mend. Discerning that task, hearing Vayikra, God’s call, is one of the great spiritual challenges for each of us.
How do we know what it is?: Where what we want to do meets what needs to be done, that is where God wants us to be.
Each of us is unique. Even genetically identical twins are different. There are things only we can do, we who are what we are, in this time, this place and these circumstances. For each of us God has a task: work to perform, a kindness to show, a gift to give, love to share, loneliness to ease, pain to heal, or broken lives to help mend. Discerning that task, hearing Vayikra, God’s call, is one of the great spiritual challenges for each of us.
How do we know what it is?: Where what we want to do meets what needs to be done, that is where God wants us to be.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?
If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
If you wait until you find the meaning of life, will there be enough life left to live meaningfully?
If you wait until you find the meaning of life, will there be enough life left to live meaningfully?
Pirkei Avot 2
Rabbi [Yehuda haNasi] said: Which is the straight path that a person should choose for himself? Whichever [path] that is [itself] praiseworthy for the person adopting [it], And praiseworthy to him from [other] people.
Rabbi [Yehuda haNasi] said: Which is the straight path that a person should choose for himself? Whichever [path] that is [itself] praiseworthy for the person adopting [it], And praiseworthy to him from [other] people.
Pirkei Avot 4:3
Do not disdain any person and do not disdain any thing; for there is no person that does not have his hour, and there is no thing that does not have its place.
Do not disdain any person and do not disdain any thing; for there is no person that does not have his hour, and there is no thing that does not have its place.
-Leonard Cohen
"This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, we have the sense that we cannot live without love, that life has very little meaning without it." –The Guardian, 2009
"This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, we have the sense that we cannot live without love, that life has very little meaning without it." –The Guardian, 2009
"You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival.
Your servant here
He has been told to say it clear
To say it cold:
It is over, it ain't going further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the Future: It is murder". -The Future
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival.
Your servant here
He has been told to say it clear
To say it cold:
It is over, it ain't going further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the Future: It is murder". -The Future
John Lennon
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.