10 Quotes by Lawrence Kushner

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else’s puzzle.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

So that’s what it’s all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you’re doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.