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"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."
"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."
"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."
"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."
"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
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"Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe."
"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."
"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people."
"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
"One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more."
"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."
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