The truth is toward the middle range, where there is room for self and other.

it offers us a “map” of the inner life and (2) it offers us a body of practices we can employ to transform our inner ways.

we have no business patiently taking our time. Patience comes into play when it is our own burden we are bearing, or when there really is no course of action available to us at that moment to alleviate the situation.

at its core, the soul you are is already holy and pure.

for others.”

It is the proverbial trickster.

“A pious Jew is not one who worries about his fellow man’s soul and his own stomach; a pious Jew worries about his own soul and his fellow man’s stomach.”

resides in the darkness of the unconscious, while the other works in the opposite direction,

“accepting what I cannot control.