My Commonplace Book

Rabbi David Wolpe said, “The stories of the Torah, read year after year, wear grooves in our souls…”

Esau McCaulley said, “Our national tendency to see only the best of America was standing in the way of truly becoming great. [Frederick Douglass] thought enough of this country to tell it the truth. We would be better off if more of us did the same.”

Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist, describes anxiety as a “conscious feeling” originating in the brain.

Nicolas Wolterstorff said, “Grief is existential testimony to the worth of the one loved.”