I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own res… - Vanessa L Ochs
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own res…
- Vanessa L Ochs
I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better per… - Vanessa L Ochs
I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better per…
Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as… - Vanessa L Ochs
Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as…
I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien te… - Vanessa L Ochs
I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien te…
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