Abie Cohen

I don’t know exactly how all these seeds will take root or what will emerge from them. And, honestly, I’m okay with that. This season of my life feels like one of unfolding rather than controlling, of stepping forward with openness rather than certainty. What I do know is that I’m here for it—holding my experience with curiosity, embracing the... See more

Imagine being at Mount Sinai: The Exodus happens! You and your family are freed from bondage. You have every reason to think your life is about to be as good as you’ve always dreamed it could be. Instead, you’re left wandering the desert for 40 years. It’s miserable, and hard, and feels like it might be endless. Finally, your time comes! Or you... See more

Having them is literally like outsourcing your heart and letting pieces of it walk around the world completely unprotected. But ironically, that doesn’t actually make them extensions of us. Like I think the reason those pieces of heart feel unprotected is because they’re still mine, but not part of me anymore.

To me, the message is: treat people well and share your fortunes generously. I think that’s the only way to feel true happiness from success.

He thought about space the way he thought about mathematics or analytic philosophy or the Torah or Mozart’s twentieth piano concerto, which he sometimes played at night when my sister and I were going to bed. It was beautiful and complex and infinite, and how could you not want to explore that, know where it came from, know where we came from?