Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
BAAL SHEM TOVUnless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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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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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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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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There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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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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For my sake, the entire world was created.
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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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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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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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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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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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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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