This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared Quotes

“The Hebrew term for a calm, settled state of mind—yishuv ha-dat—is bound up with the concept of sitting. Daat is awareness or consciousness, intellectual, emotional, meditative, intuitive or all of the above. The word yishuv is a noun from the Hebrew root yashav, meaning to sit, or to dwell or to inhabit.”
― Alan A. Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

“The great journey of transformation begins with the acknowledgment that we need to make it. It is not something we are undertaking for amusement, nor even for the sake of convention; rather, it is a spiritual necessity. And our need to be more conscious—to awaken from the deep dream that has held us in its thrall—is always there”
― Alan A. Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation

“Spiritual practice won’t change what happens. Rather, it will help us to experience what happens not as evil, but simply as what happens.”
― Alan A. Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation