Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
BAAL SHEM TOVThere is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
More Baal Shem Tov Quotes
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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Mind is the foundation of man.
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As man acts, God reacts.
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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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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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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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The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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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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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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For my sake, the entire world was created.
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