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.
BAAL SHEM TOVAs man acts, God reacts.
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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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For my sake, the entire world was created.
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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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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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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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Before you can find God, you must lose 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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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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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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As man acts, God reacts.
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Mind is the foundation of man.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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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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