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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• 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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• 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 would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

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  Cutting, Together, Phrases

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.

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  Guitar, Careers, Technique

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

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  Girl, Country, Song

  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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• We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

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  Teaching, Gay, Jewish Tradition

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae, wearing them like masks, and then discarding them as soon as they grew too familiar.

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  Self, Years, Funny Things

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"

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  Song, Wind, Careers

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

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  Song, Two, Honor

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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