The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

—Lawrence Kushner

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About Lawrence Kushner

Portrait of Lawrence Kushner

Lawrence Kushner (born 1943) is a Reform rabbi and the scholar-in-residence at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, California.

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

—Albert Einstein

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

—Edwin P. Whipple

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

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Many who have spent a lifetime in love can tell you less of love than the child whose dog died yesterday.

—Thornton Wilder

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