Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
BAAL SHEM TOVHe who is full of joy is full of love.
More Baal Shem Tov Quotes
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A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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From every human being there rises a light.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
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As man acts, God reacts.
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When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.
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