Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Rodger Kamenetz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Rodger Kamenetz.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Rodger Kamenetz is an American poet and author best known for The Jew in the Lotus (1994), an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama. His poetry explores the Jewish experience and in recent years, dream consciousness. Since 2003 he's been instrumental in developing Natural Dreamwork, a practice that focuses on the sacred encounters in dreams.

American - Poet | Born: 1950

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Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

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A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

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Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

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Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

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Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

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I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

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Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

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In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

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Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

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