Devotion (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Jacob: Main character's son
• Michael: Husband
• Shirley: Aunt
• Moe: Uncle-Shirley's Husband
• Burt: Add a description of this character.
• Sylvia Boorstein: Buddhist teacher
• Steve: Friend
• Dani: Main character-her story
• Harvey: Uncle- Father's brother
• Sandra
• Henry
• Irene
• Mordechai
• Sharon
• Mazel Tov
• David
• Heschel

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• “May you be safe.May you be happy.May you be strong.May you live with ease.”

  Sylvia Boorstein

• “In the best of circumstances, a loving family, good health, adequate financial resources, and untroubled times are the palace walls that protect childhoods and early consciousness ad allow us to move into our adult lives with confidence.”

  Sylvia Boorstein

• “Doing was what was necessary. Action has magic, grace, and power in it, as Goethe once wrote. Whenever I took an action--yoga, reading a bit ,expressing gratitude at the dinner table-----I felt better. The scales tipped away from suffering and toward openheartedness and love.”

  Dani Shapiro

• “The far-enemy of sympathetic joy is envy. And the near enemy is comparing. It's painful and unskillful to compare,no matter what conclusion we draw. Comparing creates agitation in the mind.”

  Sharon

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• “The whole world is a lesson in what’s true,” she said. “Everyone is struggling. Life is difficult for everybody. Once you’re in, there’s no way out. You have to go forward. And we all die in the end. So how to deal with it?”

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• May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be strong. May I live with ease.

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• “It’s painful and unskillful to compare,” Sharon said, “no matter what conclusion we draw. Comparing creates agitation in the mind.”

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• Be careful what you surround yourself with, because you become what you surround yourself with.

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• Carl Jung put it perfectly: “Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life,” he wrote. “Worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will by evening have become a lie.”

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• Brooklyn
• York
• Manhattan
• Garrison
• Judaism
• Brookline
• Massachusetts
• Jerusalem
• England
• Jersey

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• Faith: Struggle with one's own beliefs.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dani Shapiro (Author)

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• Dewey: 818.5403

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