Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
Interpretation
Dreams allow us to explore our potential and find our true selves.
In this quote, Jonathan Sacks emphasizes the importance of dreams in understanding ourselves and our capabilities. He suggests that dreams are not just fantasies but pathways to discovering our authentic selves, much like how great religious leaders have used their visions to inspire and guide others.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.
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