Robb Kushner:
CLASS OF 1968
Springbrook High SchoolClass of 1968
Silver spring, MD
Robb's Story
Robb is from Silver Spring, Maryland. In addition to Springbrook High School,
Robb attended The University of Chicago, Boston University (BS, Education), and University of New Haven (MBA) .
Robb worked (among other places) at:
Merrill Lynch, Price Waterhouse, and Union for Reform Judaism (URJ).
Robb has been married to Jill since 1973. We raised two kids who have now married and spawned 3 grandkids. It's hard to describe how blessed we feel.
While staying connected to his root tradition of Judaism. Robb has embraced the practice of mindfulness in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. And he has begun teaching others about mindfulness meditation.
Music Robb likes includes Bob Dylan and The Beatles. Also: Blues, Folk, and Jazz.
TV shows Robb likes include MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Some of Robb's favorite quotes are:
""All I can say is, it's worth the struggle to discover who you really are and how you, in your own way, can put life together as something that means a lot to you. It's a miracle when you finally discover whom you're best equipped to serve -- and we're all equipped to serve in some way." - from Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - American theologian Howard Thurman
"Let us learn to live simply, so that others may simply live." - Ghandi
"Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear he...Expand for more
r breathing." -- Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." - Ghandi
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Abolitionist Theodore Parker, c. 1850's
"Do what you love. Get good at it. And let the chips fall where they may." - Jon Stewart
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." - A.J. Muste
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." - Pema Chodron
"He not busy being born is busy dying." - Bob Dylan
"Put your good where it will do the most." - Ken Kesey
"If you donât know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
"If you ask a fish to describe its environment, the last thing you'll hear about will be water." - Anon.
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." - Winston Churchill
"We shape our buildings [and towns, and cities]; thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill
"When the pupil is ready, the master will appear." - Zen proverb
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." - Bob Dylan
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