Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
BAAL SHEM TOVThe world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
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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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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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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 my sake, the entire world was created.
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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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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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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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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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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 world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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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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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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