I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.