Tag: the voice

  • How I Learned To Confront My Inner Critic

    How I Learned To Confront My Inner Critic

    For years, a voice has told me that I’m lazy, broken, even evil. Where did this voice come from, and what can it teach us about who we are in general?

  • Why Jewish Artists Need To Rebel Against “Holiness”

    Why Jewish Artists Need To Rebel Against “Holiness”

    People think they’re being holy when they’re not being artistic. They’re wrong.

  • The Fight You Can’t Lose

    The Fight You Can’t Lose

    You’re fighting the most important fight of all, the fight of your life. It’s the fight of making every moment in your life count, of making your life meaningful, of passing the tests G-d throws at you and becoming a stronger, deeper more connected and enlightened person. Is there any bigger fight?

  • Distractions

    Distractions

    It’s beautiful to see that Jews care, that they’re passionate and they want so badly to change the world. There’s no bigger testament to the fact that we are the chosen people. But it’s also ugly.

  • On Not Writing

    On Not Writing

    Do you have any idea what that’s like, I want to ask. To know you’ve hurt others with your own words. You’ve torn the world down. You’ve hurt people. If the pen is mightier than the sword then writers are killers.

  • Inception Part 4:  The Hope

    Inception Part 4: The Hope

    Luckily, just as with Cobb, we have some help. Help that, if we will only be willing to be aware of it, listen to it, and use it, will allow us not only to fight off our Voice, but to go even further, to help create a world of absolute beauty and truth.

  • Inception Part 3:  The Mal Within

    Inception Part 3: The Mal Within

    The truth is that there is more than one Mal, as becomes apparent the more we make our way through Inception. There is the real Mal. The “lovely” Mal. The one who “grew old” with Cobb, sharing a beautiful life, a lovely world with her husband. Fully devoted, fully in love and always ready to…