Monday 7 September 2015

Quotes: 18th century Chasidic saying

"Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world." –– Chasidic saying, 18th century
*Source: C. Stern, ed., Gates of Repentance: The New Union Prayerbook for the Days of Awe (New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1978), p. 3 via Norman Doidge The Brain's Way of Healing 2015 (unpaginated).

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