“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”

“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

“Précisément! The body — the cage — is everything of the most respectable — but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.”

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”

“… But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.”

“You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart”

“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”

“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”

“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”

“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”