You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?
You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.
You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
You are here so I can teach you something. That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate abreeze from the wind.
Yes, I said, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, Oh, if I were young again. You never hear people say, I wish I were sixty-five. He smiled. You know what that reflects? Unsatisfie...
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
Why do you want to die?'I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe.'You knew...?'She gave a sad smile.'I'm your mother.
Wherever I went in my life, I met people who wanted to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about...
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
When people tell me that I’m good, my response is, ‘I’m trying.’ But there’s some people that know me from back when—anytime I make that trip to New York—and when they hear I’m the pastor of a church,...
When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted, as his penance, a gesture. You waited until the Catholic schoolkids wer...
When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissa...
When I asked the Reb, Why do bad things happen to good people?, he gave none of the standard answers. He quietly said, No one knows. I admired that. But when I asked if that ever shook his belief in G...
Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time—then you might not be as ambitious as you are.
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.
Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other, the front wave tells the second wave he's frightened because he is about to shore-crash and cease to exist, but the second wave tells him that he is n...
Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected ev...
There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the present, children who had not yet been born, side by...