The December Project Quotes

“So I resolve to cancel my trip, and for a moment, I feel relieved. Then depression sinks in, and everything seems flat and colorless.” Zalman gave a rueful smile. “You’ve decided to go back to the gray land rather than the one that’s Technicolor, where everything feels significant.” That reminded me of Joseph Campbell’s words about refusing the call. If the hero doesn’t heed the call to action, he wrote in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the “flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones.”
― Sara Davidson, The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery

“Besides, I told him, as Hemingway once wrote about good stories, “They are truer than if they had really happened.”
― Sara Davidson, The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery

“He believed the world was created so people could learn Torah and serve God.”
― Sara Davidson, The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery