For my sake, the entire world was created.
BAAL SHEM TOVFor any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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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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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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A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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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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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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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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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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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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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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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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From every human being there rises a light.
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