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.
BAAL SHEM TOVTo pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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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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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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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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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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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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From every human being there rises a light.
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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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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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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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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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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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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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