Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Religions Are Like Languages

To me, religions are like languages: no language
is true or false; all languages are of human origin;
each language reflects and shapes the civilization
that speaks it; there are things you can say in one
language that you cannot say or say as well in
another; and the more languages you learn, the
more nuanced your understanding of life becomes.
Judaism is my mother tongue, yet in matters of
the spirit I strive to be multi-lingual. In the end,
however, the deepest language of the soul
is silence.

Rabbi Rami Shapiro

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