Davening Quotes

“God is always present. The question is, how present are we?”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer

“The awareness that we stand in the presence of the Living God is one of the most important realizations we can install in our operative consciousness. God is always present. The question is, how present are we? We want to stand in that Presence without opacity. Our work is to penetrate, in meditation and in action, to the very heart of being nokhach penei ha-Shem (Lamentations 2:19), of being truly present before God.”
― Schachter-Shalomi , Rabbi Zalman, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer

“True prayer is a bursting forth of the soul to God. What can be more natural and more human than turning to God’s listening presence with our thanks and our burdens?”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one eye, one sight, one knowledge, and one love.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer

“Don’t regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.”
― Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer