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Category: Chaim Potok

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Travel, Today, Media

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Hungry, New, Always

All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Home, Reading, Reality

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

city, golden-sun

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

chaim, davita, harp, past, planning, potok, understand

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

death, forever, precious, precious-life

In our time… a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

bureaucracy, mythology

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

hymnal, inspirational, religious