Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
BAAL SHEM TOVUnless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within 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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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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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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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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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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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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Mind is the foundation of man.
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There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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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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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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