Vanessa L Ochs Quotes

• To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Spiritual, Women, Healing

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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• I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more concerned with everyone else's pains. Sanctifying had something to do with a sense of constant wonder - feeling gratitude and finding significance everywhere, in every action, relationship and object.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Gratitude, Pain, Feelings

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• I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Religious, Women, Home

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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• Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Brother, Integrity, Heart

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