When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It’s very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions – light and darkness mixed.

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Hard Our Generation

There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.

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Eye Free

The good will is all – and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

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Fulfill Happy Mindset Way

The desire to be good to all with no restrictions – not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform – that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel.

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Country Essence

I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.

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I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.

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Reminder Silent

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

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Foggy Pleasant Shining

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one’s will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

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Recognition Sadness Uplifting

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

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Big Remnant Thing Tiny Whole

All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.

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Disillusionment

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

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Doe Naturally Truly

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

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Causeless Perhaps Rebuild Second Temple

We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

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Forgot Holy

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

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Easy Higher Simpler

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

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Dim.Confirguration Distance

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

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Consolation Fault

The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement… shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.

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Blocked Dynamic Eternally General

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

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