Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
BAAL SHEM TOVFear builds walls to bar the light.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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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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Mind is the foundation of man.
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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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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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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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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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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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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 central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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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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