Jay Michaelson Quotes

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• The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

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  Rude, Relaxation, Awakening

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• There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

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  Shadow, Path, Liberation

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• All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

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  Dirty, Inspire, Relaxation

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.77, North Atlantic Books

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• I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.

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  Nice, Boys, Thinking

  "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

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  Watches, Generations, Sitting

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

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  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

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  Miracle, Relax, Creatures

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.77, North Atlantic Books

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• I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.

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  Religious, Spirituality, Honest

  "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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• At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

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  Journey, Lasts, Stage

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.110, North Atlantic Books

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• Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.

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  Educational, Naked, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

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  Dream, Roots, Broken

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

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  Long, Political, Levels

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.

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  Class, Two, Voice

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• [Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

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  Bob, Poet, Dylan

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and who knows who else) and "Most of the Time." Go figure.

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  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along the Watchtower" sound like a Disney tune, hosts an old-school radio show, and turns up in some unusual places, like ads for Chrysler and Victoria's Secret.

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  School, Dark, Roots

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".

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  Summer, Song, Thinking

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

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  Summer, Keys, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• [Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tradition that preceded him and hopefully will outlive him as well.

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  Song, Roots, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• [Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

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  Dream, Cash, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.

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  Lying, Doubt, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

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  Song, Water, Phases

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

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  Song, Bob, Hell And Back

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Stronger, Fans

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed to the kind of enforced closet of certain interpretations of religion.

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  People, Diversity, Support

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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