Welcome to TORAH-VEDA

The mission of Torah-Veda is to provide an avenue for the awakening, nurturance and expression of spirituality, with a focus on the nondual mystical traditions of Torah/Kabalah and Veda/Vedanta. We seek the common threads that exist between these and various other spiritual and mystical traditions, exploring the possibilities for a new synthesis relevant to the spiritual needs of today.

Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.

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Juxtaposed Quotes on Coping with Fear

Humanity wants to build a city and a tower reaching all the way up into the heavens so they would not be scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world, and God wants to sabotage the well-intended project by mixing up the languages so they would end up being scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world – exactly what they’d been afraid of in the first place. The lesson was an important one:

If we expend too much time and energy avoiding what we fear, we will only further the realization of what we fear.

--Rabbi Gershon Winkler, explaining a lesson from the Tower of Babel story

Fear invites danger.

--Swami Rama

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they’ve been before,

because a lot of their fear is gone.

--Robert Bly

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Juxtaposed Quotes about Coping with Fear

Juxtaposed Quotes on Coping with Fear Humanity wants to build a city and a tower reaching all the way up into the heavens so they would not be scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world, and God wants to sabotage the well-intended project by mixing up the languages so they would end up being scattered about across a precarious, unpredictable world – exactly what they’d been afraid of in the first place. The lesson was an important one: If we expend too much time

Steve Gold

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